Women on Business
JUNE 29, 2011
Guest post by Susie Collins (learn more about Susie at the end of this post). There are a growing number of career opportunities for women these days. It is exciting to grow a career in a field that you are passionate about. Periodically, she might even be hyper-attentive to her career and less so to her partner.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 1, 2014
Ian McAllister, General Manager at Amazon, reports that one of his greatest challenges as a new manager was thinking too small. According to Jim Collins, author of “Good To Great,” truly great leaders are ambitious for their organizations, rather than seeking personal celebrity. 2- Failure to focus on strategy.
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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). What if we made you an SVP of all the field operations, and a couple of people that now report to me would report to you?”.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 29, 2017
When reports focus not just on the bright side, but also the dark side of personality, leaders will be able to understand what their “toxic assets” are. 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.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
My friend is one of more than 4,000 bishops reporting to the pope, who in turn lead some 400,000 priests, who tend to more than one billion followers. It's an unusual process in which the recruiters are the potential hires and the direct reports choose their own future leader!). Have they championed diversity and inclusion?
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. This simple exercise grows out of a powerful question I heard years ago from advertising legend Roy Spence , who says he got it from Jim Collins of Good to Great fame.
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2010
I have live video above, and in the text that follows I’ll share my opinions on the best and the worst of WBF Day 1… Jim Collins kicked-off the day with everything you would expect from him. Leaders make the news, they don’t report it. There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking.
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