LDRLB

JANUARY 6, 2012

Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen. Jim Collins much anticipated new release. Collins’ research methods may be criticized by academic scholars, but his insights give engaging analysis into how companies succeed in tough times. Perhaps 2011’s greatest text on organizational creativity and innovation.

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Collins Cialdini Kahneman Constraint 141

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I've just finished reading Jim Collins' latest book, Great By Choice (which he co-authored with Morten Hansen). Collins is a smart observer and a gifted writer. It's hard to put down a Collins book feeling anything but.well, inspired. Collins has a knack for asking good questions. You can do it, he says. You really can.

Porter 15

Porter Collins Competitive Advantage Strategy 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

in the comments below… [link] Dan Collins Mike, I believe leadership is pretty simple – not easy, not common, but simple. I would nominate Miki Saxon's MAPping Company Success here though: [link] Posts are usually short, concise and speak much in few words. I'm honored to be in such tremendous company!

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Blog Leadership Follow-up Media 378

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

In it, MBAs were asked to choose the best R&D investment strategy for a case company; then, they were shown how that strategy played out (disappointingly). They worried that it made Kent and the company look unequal to its challenges. A pathbreaking study by Barry Staw in the 1970s helped to clarify why.

COO 15

COO Collins PR Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2011

In the first morning, one of its long-time executives, Charlie Bresler , spoke of the compact between the company and its employees and the mutual obligations it entailed. Health care is more than a matter of reining in the abuses of insurance companies and debating whether or not the law as passed is going to cost or save money.

Power 14

Power Insurance Retail Politics 14