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Love Them and Lead Them

The Practical Leader

In his book, Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands , Kevin Roberts, CEO of the global advertising agency, Saatchi & Saatchi, explains that fads attract, but without love, it’s a passing infatuation. airline in The Wall Street Journal’s annual ranking for 2020 based on key operational performance metrics.

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Do You Speak the Language of Performance Driven Execution?

N2Growth Blog

Extraordinary greatness today requires us to adopt the story of the fox and the Hedgehog in Jim Collins’ outstanding book Good to Great. Design the campaign plan with compressed timeframes (Parallel Operations). Achieve Flawless Execution: Operation Arizona – the Mop-up: Plan-Brief-Execute-Debrief (Grand Strategy).

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Jim Collins, Meet Michael Porter

Harvard Business Review

I've just finished reading Jim Collins' latest book, Great By Choice (which he co-authored with Morten Hansen). Collins is a smart observer and a gifted writer. It's hard to put down a Collins book feeling anything but.well, inspired. Collins has a knack for asking good questions. You can do it, he says.

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Three Leadership Skills That Count

Harvard Business Review

In our new book Great by Choice , Jim Collins and I pondered that question. Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it. Empirical Creativity. Well, just staying alive does not produce greatness.

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RIM/Blackberry is at a Critical Leadership Crossroad

The Practical Leader

I am also eagerly awaiting Amazon’s release of the Kindle for PlayBook so I can use it to read the e-books that I am currently reading on my Kindle for PC and Blackberry Torch. Their stock price has dropped off a cliff this year. RIM’s primary competitor, Apple, is at the same crossroad.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right? As you say, it is not about the coach. Its about results.

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Intellect…an Asset or Liability? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Winning an argument isn’t particularly difficult, but it may come at a very expensive price. M [link] Dan Collins Mike, I have really enjoyed your posts for some time but I must say this has got to be one of the best. How's the book coming? " Thanks for sharing the keen observations.

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