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Why Your Good Leadership Isn’t Great.

Rich Gee Group

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. Persuasion, Motivation, & Coaching. What techniques do you use to get your teams to efficiently execute company strategy? Good To Great.

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Leaders don’t create more followers. They create more leaders.

Brigette Hyacinth

They consistently seek opportunities to inspire and motivate others. Companies such as Blackberry, Kodak and Nokia did not heed this advice and they engaged in group think, which ultimately led to their demise. But failing to optimize the talent of others is setting yourself, and the company up for failure. The ego must go.

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Taking leadership to the next level

Lead on Purpose

In recent days I’m re-listening to Good to Great by Jim Collins. Collins’ definition is simple: “Level 5 leaders blend the paradoxical combination of deep personal humility with intense professional will.” This is, as Collins puts it, a “study in duality.” So can you and I become a Level 5 leader?

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4 Ways To Be A Humble Leader

Eric Jacobson

From John Blakey 's book, The Trusted Executive , here are these four tips from Jim Collins for how to be a humble leader : Demonstrate a compelling modesty, shunning public adulation and never be boastful. Act with quiet, calm determination and motivate others through inspired standards, not inspiring charisma.

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How To Be A Humble Leader

Eric Jacobson

From John Blakey 's book, The Trusted Executive , here are these four tips from Jim Collins for how to be a humble leader : Demonstrate a compelling modesty, shunning public adulation and never be boastful. Act with quiet, calm determination and motivate others through inspired standards, not inspiring charisma.

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Quotes to Note on Purposeful Leadership

The Practical Leader

. “We’re learning that the profit motive, potent though it is, can be an insufficient impetus for both individuals and organizations. An equally powerful source of energy, one we’ve often neglected or dismissed as unrealistic, is what we might call the ‘purpose motive.'” ” James C. That is changing.

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Eric Jacobson

If you haven't read, Good To Great , by Jim Collins, do so. The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good-to-great companies are those who have the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.

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