Rich Gee Group

JUNE 13, 2014

An incredible book by Jim Collins — relates how certain companies overcame their obstacles and pushed themselves from being just good companies to the stars of their industry. Do you feel that you stayed true to your ethics and that your decision grew you as a leader in your organization? Good To Great. What was the result?

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Leadership Collins Micromanagement Motivation 363

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Steve Browne’s goal is to motivate people to pursue a career in human resources. Investing in people is arguably one of the best books to read when looking to take your career to the next level. Belonging at Work: Everyday Actions You Can Take to Cultivate an Inclusive Organization By Rhodes Perry, MPA.

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Books Human Resources Diversity Kahneman 98

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 7, 2019

After all, if you run an organization of any size, you cannot be involved in every decision. It’s a regular part of any organization. They change careers. Jennifer Collins. Plus, if you second guessed other decisions, you wouldn’t empower and allow people to lead. “We We think too much and feel too little. They retire.

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Servant Leader Human Capital Collins Tips 86

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

An incredible book by Jim Collins — relates how certain companies overcame their obstacles and pushed themselves from being just good companies to the stars of their industry. Do you feel that you stayed true to your ethics and that your decision grew you as a leader in your organization? Good To Great. What was the result?

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Leadership Collins Licensing Ethics 225

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Steve Browne’s goal is to motivate people to pursue a career in human resources. Investing in people is arguably one of the best books to read when looking to take your career to the next level. Belonging at Work: Everyday Actions You Can Take to Cultivate an Inclusive Organization By Rhodes Perry, MPA.

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Books Human Resources Diversity Kahneman 52

Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

Going ‘Jim Collins’ By the time my travels took me back to Billings, a couple of months later, I knew what I had to do. The source of going “Jim Collins” (and a great book). Organizations need it because complacency is always a problem. It was time. And there was one more thing.

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Collins Leadership Operations Travel 150

LDRLB

JUNE 27, 2011

Running a great organization is simple. Find really great people and bring them into your [now] really great organization. They flagged and followed those who had a career change from the firm they were a star in to another, often competing firm. Leadership collins groysberg talent' Um, about that bus….

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Collins Deming Executive Coaching Cost 68

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

To be needful, a leader should recognize that executives who have not been on the front lines of their organization for years, cannot have all the answers. ” John Letts : You may not know John, but he was a senior leader at my employer, early in my career. Sam Walton. What NEEDFUL Looks Like for Leaders. Russell, Robert F. &

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Servant Leader Greenleaf Delegation Collins 197

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Poorly motivated and uninspired people can bring down even the most amazing organization. “The organization is, above all, social. ” –Jim Collins, Good to Great. Talk about it with your peers, brainstorm what it means in terms of your organization, and get going! ” — Larry Page, Google.

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Covey Welch Long-term Collins 127

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Focus on driving-down the most complex tasks to the lowest levels of the organization, and then leverage with talent, capital and technology while avoiding the creation of margin eroding dependencies. Related Post: Keeping it Simple Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Collins Excellent – Simple, Scalable and Succinct Advice.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 295

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

One of the first things you need to understand as a CEO is what your time is worth relative to others in the organization. The most productive, high-performance organizations have the ability to deliver fairly complex solutions, and complete difficult tasks at the lowest levels within their organization.

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CEO Blog Delegation Covey 294

N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. Vision is the core of culture, and without it organizations will never move beyond mediocrity – if they get that far. I'd add that a good vision isn't just the leader or the organization. Vision is often misunderstood.

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Blog Leadership CEO Brand 315

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

I’m always amazed at the number of organizations that charge sub-par leaders with mission critical tasks and then wonder why they failed to meet their objectives. Furthermore, in well run organizations you can determine which initiatives are most important to the enterprise by examining which leaders are tasked to what initiatives.

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Bottom-up Blog Objective Brand 305

CO2

JANUARY 31, 2014

Our days are filled with raising families and building relationships, growing a business or pursuing a career, serving others and our communities, and trying to stay mentally and physically fit. When looking for a company’s purpose, Jim Collins asks, “What can the organization be the world’s best at?”

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Gilbert Executive Coaching Collins Mentor 145

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

I started out my career by aspiring to be like Dick Clark. I recommend that organizations periodically revisit their earlier successes. Insight offered about own life-career. The mentor stands for mentees throughout careers, celebrates successes. As an integrated process of life skills, a career has its important place.

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Mentor Case Study Strategic Planning Learning-by-Doing 87

LDRLB

JUNE 27, 2011

Running a great organization is simple. Find really great people and bring them into your [now] really great organization. They flagged and followed those who had a career change from the firm they were a star in to another, often competing firm. Um, about that bus….

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Deming Executive Coaching Cost Resources 110

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

link] Arthur Rasco I would like to nominate Dr. Kara Gibson who is serving in Haiti right now with international relief organization Samaritan's Purse. Here in Owasso, OK there is an organization called Owasso Community Resources. link] Dan Collins Mike, Leaders inspire us by their example. but you’ll not find that here.

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Blog Covey Learning-by-Doing Video 290

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

They''re people like Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook COO and author of Lean In ), who is advocating a big new idea from within an organization. Jim Collins has created a long-lasting enterprise supported by the sale of books and media, as well as fees for consulting, speaking engagements, and workshops.

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Entrepreneur Career Merchandising COO 9

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Leaders who leverage social media successfully for their organizations can bring about great change. Organizations can use social media to connect more effectively with customers (both internal and external), improve service and responsiveness, and monitor perceptions of their brand. It transformed my business and career.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 315

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Every day, in every community, every industry and field there are organizations practicing servant leadership and driving great results. Why is it not THE leadership model that every organization aspires to? How long – were you there in the organization for a while? So why is it not more common? Thank-you Jim.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Every day, in every community, every industry and field there are organizations practicing servant leadership and driving great results. Why is it not THE leadership model that every organization aspires to? How long – were you there in the organization for a while? So why is it not more common? Thank-you Jim.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

He began his Chick-fil-A career working as an hourly team member in 1977. Mark Miller is a business leader, best-selling author and communicator. In 1978, Mark joined the corporate staff working in the warehouse and mailroom.

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Operations Quality Career Team 80

Roundtable Talk

APRIL 27, 2010

That’s an oft quoted managerism that speaks to the importance of (in Jim Collins’ words) getting the right people on your bus. In my opinion, an alignment between a person’s core values and that of the organizations’ is crucial for long-term success. Result – what were the outcomes? How did they feel? What did they learn?

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Collins How To Gilbert Teamwork 31

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Unfortunately, these seemingly innocuous meetings can have consequences, and most of them fall on the careers of employees from underrepresented backgrounds. The other solution is one that can create lasting change for diversity and inclusion: to organize inclusive events that welcome employees from all backgrounds. ” 7.

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Management Diversity Collins Committee 10

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Last year, I realized that my career going forward is to help other entrepreneurs as I have been helped. My new book Wind In Your Sails draws from the ideas of Jim Collins and Guy Kawasaki, among others. In the both book Good To Great and the article Aligning Action & Values , Jim Collins elaborates on purpose.

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Collins Entrepreneur Document Goal 150

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

Why don't successful people and organizations automatically become very successful? In his book How the Mighty Fall , Jim Collins explored this phenomenon and found that one of the key reasons for these failures was that companies fell into "the undisciplined pursuit of more." It is true for companies and it is true for careers.

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Kahneman Objective Collins Career 20

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

How many people, ideas, organizations entered the game wanting to be successful? Yet our careers, families, social lives, priorities, and visions may differ significantly from those who are hailed as successful by a particular expert. How many eventually prospered?

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Succession Advice Collins Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

In contrast, when leaders are aware of their limitations, they are less likely to make mistakes that put their teams, organizations, and countries in danger. Perhaps most famously, Jim Collins’ seminal analyses of effective executives suggested that the most outstanding leaders are not just relentless and driven, but also humble.

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Self-aware 360-Degree Feedback How To Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Depending on the phase of your career and your other goals for the year, you may want to prioritize one more than the others. Developing your connecting goals starts with a look at where power resides in your organization. Professional development takes three main forms: learning, connecting, and creating. Who else has influence?

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Planning Development Collins Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

In other words, what employees saw on a careers site or on their company’s social channels, or what they heard from recruiters, was often inconsistent with what they experienced when they joined the company. Imagine, for example, being promised a culture of innovation only to have every new idea you put forward dismissed.

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Reputation Brand Attrition How To 12

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Wild thinking is what happens when you pose 25 thought-provoking questions to 25 intelligent, creative leaders in organizations as diverse as Google, Gap, Time Out and Twinings. A Successful Career is a Marathon. And many organizations have. Dialogue is the mother of both brilliant strategy and great culture.” Lidell, Buchanan.

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Wilde Brand Open-book Creativity 66

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

By Jim Collins. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” .” 3. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). By Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. It is based on chapter 8 of Jim Collins book Good to Great. Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept.

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Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

In such an organization, few things are more important than making great appointments. Is he good at connecting on an emotional level with others, communicating a persuasive vision and helping others stay connected with the broader organization? Have they mentored great successors throughout their career?

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How To Delegation Collins Commitment 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

If you've spent any amount of time in executive retreats or leadership off-sites, you've probably been asked to participate in a familiar evaluation of your career and impact. Well, what goes for individuals goes for organizations, too. Take twenty minutes," a facilitator will say, "and write your professional obituary.

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Company Brand Banking Long-term 10

Six Disciplines

APRIL 19, 2013

However, a great round of golf isn’t the same as a great season of golf, nor is it the same as a great career in golf. In their best-selling book, Built to Last, authors Jim Collins and Jerry Porras studied businesses that survived at least 100 years, in order to learn more about enduring companies. Is success for ten years enough?

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Collins Conference Learning-by-Doing Books 83

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Jonathan Heng Hi Mike- Consider these topics: - Legacies of Leadership – How the impact of effective leadership inspires the organization to a higher standard (ie. link] Dan Collins Mike, I would particularly like someone to address the popularity of "politically correct" leadership.

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Influence Blog Leadership Video 301