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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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045: How Conscious Leaders Build Value | with Fred Kofman

Engaging Leader

In the landmark book Good to Great , Jim Collins studies what drives average companies to take a quantum leap and become extraordinary. These leaders, whom Collins calls “Level 5,” channel their ego ambition away from themselves into the larger goal of building a great company. Resources Mentioned in This Episode.

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How Will You Still Be Improving on Sept 22?

Lead Change Blog

Mathilde Collin , CEO of Front , disconnected from technology in order to enjoy her honeymoon. However, writes Vicario, a strategy such as scheduling “creative time” toward the end of the day on Monday can help unlock people’s brains and foster constructive team activity while improving the mood. When You Look Back on 2019.

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Vision and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

These CEOs can often go undiscovered for great lengths of time before their poorly constructed vision bubbles-up to the surface, by which time it is often too late to repair the damage. Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. However worse than the CEO with no vision, is a CEO with the wrong vision.

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Do You Speak the Language of Performance Driven Execution?

N2Growth Blog

Extraordinary greatness today requires us to adopt the story of the fox and the Hedgehog in Jim Collins’ outstanding book Good to Great. It simply means a significant change in your thought processes allowing you to be radically different from the norms. This part of the language helps leaders to ideate, select and execute solutions.

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How to Identify Leadership Potential

Great Leadership By Dan

Here’s a summary of three studies on how to identify leadership potential: Development Dimensions International DDI has developed a set of criteria that they say will accurately predict executive success, based on their own experience and research, and research by others, including work by Jim Collins for his book Good to Great ; Morgan W.

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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

2 49,800 32,900 1,911 Jim Collins Business, Leadership Words of wisdom from Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, Built to Last, and Great by Choice. Former construction manager & church planter. Called to encourage and equip leaders around the world. Leadership Exec/Consultant, Passion: Visionary Leadership!