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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. Collins advises leaders to “channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company.”.

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A Culture of Discipline: Ignition Points for CEOs Serious About Scaling Up Their Business

Sales Wolf Blog

Prelude: Scaling Your Company Is NOT a Sideline Strategy If you are the Founder / CEO of a business venture and obsessed with scaling your Company, this is your zero hour. Chances are you have heard of Jim Collins’ groundbreaking framework, ' A Culture of Discipline.' Include Jim Collins' timeless book Good to Great as well.

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Executive Leadership: One Temptation Most Successful Executives Resist

Let's Grow Leaders

In a recent conversation, “Mary” a senior leader at a Fortune 15 company shared the moment she “Got it.” Yes, it starts with what Jim Collins calls “ Getting the right people on the bus. The Temptation. And like Mary, you likely have five or so functional areas you oversee.

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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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Strategic Resilience

Lead Change Blog

Notwithstanding occasional nausea, what is it that contributes to interpreting rough waters as an invitation to experience new levels of success? In the words of Good to Great author Jim Collins, every institution has to wrestle with a vexing question: What should change and what should never change? Strategic Resilience.

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

Brigette Hyacinth

And how you treat them, is literally the difference between success and failure. The greater your success, the more you need to stay in touch with fresh and diverse opinions and perspectives, and welcome honest feedback. Succession planning was a problem. Leaders who cultivate other leaders multiply their own success.

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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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