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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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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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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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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

11 2,410 220 2,346 Brian Tracy Personal Development Professional Speaker, Author, Success Expert, CEO of Brian Tracy International¬ô 12 254,000 20,600 1,064,000 Charles Duhigg Personal Development New York Times reporter ([link] ) and author of The Power of Habit ([link] ). Former construction manager & church planter.

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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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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. link] Dan Collins Mike, You must have been sitting in on our meetings here. I also enjoyed your thoughts on the power of paying attention to the landscape. and people mean relationships.

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Navigating the New Age of Conflict

Skip Prichard

Let’s start with the fascinating conversation you had with your friend and neighbor, Jim Collins. — William Ury Your three-part model is powerful. — William Ury In leadership, how can saying ‘no’ be just as powerful as saying ‘yes,’ and what are the implications for conflict resolution? ‘No’

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