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Your Leadership Operating System: Ego Or Eco?

Lead Change Blog

In his best-selling classic business book, “Good to Great,” author Jim Collins explains that it’s natural for ambitious leaders to have a healthy ego. The best leaders can effectively use this ambition to achieve what’s best for the organization, not for their own individual gain.

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Multiplying the Effective Intelligence of Your Organization

Great Leadership By Dan

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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What Bad Leaders Can Do To An Organization

Joseph Lalonde

J im Collins in his book Good to Great shares that we need to get the right people in the right seats on the right bus. How To Destroy Your Organization. Bad leaders destroy organizations. Bring poor leadership into your organization, you’re going to have issues. See how it can apply to your organization.

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Strategic Resilience

Lead Change Blog

What’s clear today is that each organization is traversing a series of temporary normals – brief chapters in their company’s story, accelerated as conditions change. Holding this dynamic perspective helps leaders synchronize their organizations with the reality of fluidity. Resilient cultures survive.

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The 5 Disciplines of Wiki Management

Leading Blog

Rod Collins writes in Wiki Management , “Today’s managers may spend more time soliciting input from their workers, but at the end of the day, the basic social technology remains the same: The managers are still the bosses, the workers are still subordinates, and the latter are still expected to do as they are told.”

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

I IN 1982, Tom Peters and Bob Waterman released In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies. In spite of the times, some companies were pursuing excellence in the execution of their missions. Consider the timelessness of these key qualities: Eight Characteristics of Excellent Companies. Perhaps not.

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3 Studies Prove Servant Leadership Good for Business

Modern Servant Leader

Here are three studies that prove Servant Leadership is good for business: Good Company Index. In the book “ Good Company “, an extensive study culminating in the “ Good Company Index “, reveals how organizations that are: 1. How good is business for these “good” companies?

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