Skip Prichard

APRIL 1, 2020

It’s a personal quality and also one that is important for leaders. When counseling someone in a time of adversity try to respond, don’t react.” – Jennifer Collins. There may only be a minute or two left on the clock, but one person’s resilient attitude and determination can change the course of a game, a project or a company. “We

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Why Your Good Leadership Isn’t Great. How can you make the leadership leap with your team and go from just being a good leader (and that isn’t bad) to a great leader?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

I’ve had issues with some of the concepts contained in Jim Collins book Good To Great since it was first released. The Study Itself : The study in and of itself has a bias in that Jim’s research staff focused their efforts on 22 Fortune 500 Companies. This is simply not true.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Phil Collins – When Peter Gabriel left Genesis in the mid-1970’s, the band auditioned over 400 vocalists before they discovered their drummer already had the voice they needed. Phil Collins asked to be given the mike and a chance. Leadership Development' Resume scanners don’t qualify talent.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

David asked Becky, “How come no one ever talks about love as a leadership competency?&# While l ove and leadership are certainly two words you don’t often hear in the same sentence, I can assure you that rarely does great leadership exist without love being present and practiced. I think it’s a great question.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

In Good to Great, Jim Collins writes, “Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. ” Getting and keeping the right people is great leadership. THE LEADERSHIP GAP. ” Lead the way.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Questions about these intertwined leadership characteristics recently came up in workshops and online discussions. Charismatic leadership seems to especially confuse many people. It’s a popular media stereotype of strong leadership. Numerous studies show that charisma isn’t a key quality of highly effective leaders.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

“My job as a leader is to make sure that everybody in the company has great opportunities and they feel they are having meaningful impact to the good of society.” “You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good its people. ” –Jim Collins, Good to Great. ” –Bill Gates.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Servant Leadership is Based on Trust. The second quality of servant leadership that I want to address with you is the importance of building a culture of trust. I think of a company I worked at that, when I started, I saw a complete lack of trust. Jennifer Collins. Leadership is not a person or a position.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Leadership Tip: Treat your employees as people not “workers.” Jennifer Collins. Caring about others is a crucial quality of servant leadership. Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. But it wasn’t something that would be covered by regular sick time, vacation or disability leave. People First.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

learning » Leadership thinking [.] truth and leadership [.] If we don't have strong evidence in your hand nothing even with the greatest Storry teiling or big media because the quality is the sign of your good substance. link] Dan Collins Academics like to debate. link] Dan Collins Buzzwords are definitely not trite.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 19, 2011

In Jim Collin’s business classic Good to Great , his team of researchers came up with a key quality that separated CEO’s of the “great&# companies, from those who ran the “good&# companies. It got me wondering about how you can tell if you’ve crossed the line. What are yours? Happy leading!

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2014

Jim Collins immortal business bestseller, Good to Great , created a revolution in many businesses and an explosion in book sales. In many instances, companies did go from good to great – or at least from good to very good. The key is these companies sought improvement. Collins knew it. Self-improvement.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 18, 2010

Leadership & The Value Of An Inquiring Mind → July 18, 2010 · 11:58 pm ↓ Jump to Comments The Practical Gift of Humility A few weeks ago Mary Jo Asmus published a blog post entitled Giving Away Your Gifts. And, it’s not a quality that comes naturally or easily to human beings either. How indeed? Warren G.

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Steve Farber

MARCH 8, 2009

Ricky, the CEO of a real estate development company in Arizona, shares his first step into the GTY endeavor: “My story is just beginning. In our company, Champion , I have worked to instill the extreme leadership roles to all our partners and friends with some success. Will he be my GTY Project? Thanks for the book.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

Motivating pop culture piece designed to foster better, more successful companies. It was he who encouraged your own leadership qualities, because your success ultimately honored him. Each entertainment niche may not be your ‘cup of tea,’ but relating to others will create common bonds and exhibits leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

” Consider the challenges that modern corporate leaders — and especially CEOs — now face, in addition to running their companies every day: A high likelihood that the company they run has a business model that is being seriously disrupted, most often as a result of technology. Focus on results. Confidence. Pragmatism.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

Then I went to work for Nabisco following the Barbarians at the Gate leveraged buyout fiasco, and had to help rebuild the company. Of these, perhaps 50 have had the combination of qualities I look for, and over time I've been able to hire some of them. And when you have them on the bus, it's amazing what your company can do.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 28, 2011

As I pondered what to share, I decided to share the leadership lessons I have learned along the way. In Leadership-people will do amazing things for people they like. This phrase comes from the book Good to Great by Jim Collins. I applied at a public information company. So let’s start all the way back at the beginning.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

GE is headquartered in Fairfield, a small town in Connecticut, while its famous Leadership Development Center is located in Crotonville, New York. Out of the 17 US Companies selected by Jim Collins in his book Built to Last studied, ten are headquartered in small towns. It's the same in Europe. They have no choice.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Although leadership talent is normally distributed, 80% of people think they are better-than-average leaders. 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. Jim Whitehurst.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. Best wishes Scott… [link] Dan Collins Mike, Excellent post. When I teach MBA leadership courses I require all papers – on any leadership issues – to address key problems from opposing views.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Study some of the most interesting and diverse group of companies such as Google, Twinings, Dropbox and even Wimbledon and you end up with fascinating stories, case studies, and research useful to every brand. He describes his cooking as lazy and unimaginative, but with the redeeming quality of being honest and simple.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

Getting the right people on the bus , to use Jim Collins' phrase, is the single most important thing a manager can do. I learned about the importance of talent-mining once again when I became CEO of Campbell Soup Company a decade ago. Over the first three years, we had to replace 300 of the top 350 leaders in the company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The same can be said for established companies. When you’re a top manager or even the CEO of a large company, you understandably have little time to take on the entire process yourself. As we’re still early in our journey, we can’t point to finished products as proof of our team’s quality just yet.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

However in reflecting upon my presentations and client engagements, I’ve noticed that it’s not an infrequent occurrence to find that even the most savvy executives misconstrue certain basic leadership ideas. Some individuals openly seek out positions of leadership, while leadership is thrust upon others.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The problem with the coaching profession is that as a general rule it is a widely held belief (at least by coaches) that a good business coach need not have specific business expertise and experience in the same field as the person receiving the coaching in order to provide quality business coaching services. Results matter.

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