Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

We cannot control much of what happens around us, but the choices we make, as Jim Collins and Morten Hansen’s research confirms, determine our success. Empirical Creativity: Bold, creative moves from a sound empirical base. The underlying principle is, be creative, but validate your creative ideas with empirical experience.

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Contingency Plans Collins Creativity Airlines 279

N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. The combination of these six words, derived from Latin, translates into an executable language leaders can use to overcome the challenges in overall organizational performance and development. Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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Execution Objective Learning-by-Doing System 298

Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 2, 2015

I should know, one of my jobs as an organizational development consultant is to help make bosses better bosses. Help Us Develop. Not all bosses have a development mindset, but the good ones absolutely do. Engagement Organizational Effectiveness boss bosses development managers supervisors' Protect Us from Management.

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Collins Bureaucracy eBook Consultative 120

Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In fact, when leaders aren’t humble – when they’re arrogant or proud – they shut down the traits that make for the strongest teams: creativity, good worth ethic, entrepreneurship, selflessness. And that “good pride” made me more willing to go the extra mile, be more creative, take measured risks and be more authentic at work.

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Servant Leader Collins Simon Leadership Styles 67

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Can we develop it? So from that perspective I think it possible to develop, and use, some of the skills associated with the charismatic personality. They value learning, creativity and personal growth. That requires involvement from the rest of us, and a different kind of leadership. I’m not sure. Self-awareness.

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Charisma Collins Leadership Self-aware 94

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Jennifer Collins. Develop a Culture of Trust. It encourages creativity and risk taking, because people aren’t afraid of failure and aren’t just “working to the numbers.” In between simply trying to survive, your best people will be looking for new opportunities and only those who can “work the system” will stick around.

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Servant Leader Micromanagement Collins Metrics 87

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

As Jim Collins wrote in his book Good to Great , leaders start by getting the right people on the bus and in the right seats. Simply share your vision with them and trust their experience, skills and creativity to take it from there. Leaders know how to choose the right person for the job.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

You may have the best materials, the newest innovations, the most creative product –but those resources are meaningless without the core of your business: your employees. “In technology it’s about the people: getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.”

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Covey Welch Long-term Collins 127

The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

As with Collins’ first book, Built to Last , and with Good to Great (read my review of both books on LinkedIn or The Leader Letter archive ), they compared the outstanding companies to a control group of comparison companies in the very same industries and extreme environments that failed to thrive. Sounding familiar?

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't Jim Collins' book, "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't," pulls from a study covering 28 companies to offer advice on which leadership strategies and business practices work, and which don't. Developing the Leader Within You Dr. John C.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Marva Collins showed that children who were previously labeled “learning disabled&# were actually victims of the label they were given by teachers who didn’t know how to teach to them. Collins worked with were predicted to fail, but instead she believed in and discovered their potential. The children that Ms.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It is based on chapter 8 of Jim Collins book Good to Great. Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept. The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel. It is still a core tool used at Amazon today.

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Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 6, 2010

One point of a goal is to help you think creatively about reaching your destination. These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. Once the answer to this question is yes, consider if it moves you far enough, fast enough. How much does this goal stretch my thinking?

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Goal Workshop BHAG Learning-by-Doing 184

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Maybe you need a leadership development expert or public speaker. Or, maybe you’re focused on personal development and want to find the best content online to help you grow as a leader. of the Center for the Development of Evangelical Leadership @GCTS_Charlotte. Obsessed with community development. Zondervan Author.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 2, 2012

Can we develop it? So from that perspective I think it possible to develop, and use, some of the skills associated with the charismatic personality. They value learning, creativity and personal growth. That requires involvement from the rest of us, and a different kind of leadership. I’m not sure. Excellent communication skills.

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Charisma Leadership Collins Self-aware 79

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

25 Provocative Questions to 25 Creative Leaders. Wild thinking is what happens when you pose 25 thought-provoking questions to 25 intelligent, creative leaders in organizations as diverse as Google, Gap, Time Out and Twinings. -Lidell, Buchanan. What is wild thinking? We spoke to the Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge about his brand.

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Wilde Brand Open-book Creativity 66

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Should the traits mentioned above be more formally cultivated in leadership development programs? And there’s no professional development without personal development… In this case, I suspect those leaders who find it difficult to express their compassion publicly could do so with some developmental work.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” While inherently obvious, it should not go unnoticed that the use of the word no is 100% negative.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 26, 2012

The clearest and most helpful guide to this question comes from the extensive empirical research of Jim Collins and his research team. Collins and co-author Morton Hansen summarized their findings in Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. We can predict there are big changes ahead.

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Heskett Collins Uncertainty Short-term 45

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 10, 2011

:c) RT @ ellenfweber TN Tanveer U Rock # We Is Bigger Than Me [link] # leadership #innovation # How to develop a culture of innovation on @ SmartBrief # Leadership blog (via @ SBLeaders ) [link] # innovation # Thank you, Angela! RT @ Pragmatic_PMP : @ TanveerNaseer You have provided worthy information in a clear way — thank you!

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Collins Blog Innovation Learning-by-Doing 112

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 2, 2012

Can we develop it? So from that perspective I think it possible to develop, and use, some of the skills associated with the charismatic personality. They value learning, creativity and personal growth. That requires involvement from the rest of us, and a different kind of leadership. I’m not sure. Excellent communication skills.

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Charisma Leadership Collins Self-aware 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great. Yet the attribute of humility seems to be neglected in leadership development programs. How would that goal take shape in the context of a formal leadership development program?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

These are some of the principles that I developed myself but do credit being inspired by Dick Clark. That’s why I developed the Pop Culture Wisdom concept, to interpolate from the cultural icons into business jargon and workable policies. ” Judy Collins (1968). They make strategic decisions based upon cultural memories.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Alexa Rank : 251,748 Google Page Rank : 5 PostRank Leadership Score : 18 Number of Posts in last 30 days : 30 TwitterGrader Score : 100 All Things Workplace : This blog offers opinions and general information on leadership and leadership development by Steve Roesler. Steve’s insights are thoughtful and always spot-on.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He was on the creative planning team for catalyst, works with leadership development of Chick-Fil-A, and is quarterbacking many projects for well known leaders. link] Dan Collins Mike, Leaders inspire us by their example. but you’ll not find that here. link] [link] mikemyatt Hi Susan: Thanks for nominating David.

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 18, 2011

A relief of tension which prohibits productive action and creative thinking 5. Therefore, as author and researcher Jim Collins put it, the best leaders will make sure their people are "in the correct seats on the bus." A shared sense of mirth (and therefore belonging) 3. Quicker passing of time for more menial tasks 7.

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Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 119

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Of course, time is money, and in light of the long selling cycles, creative financing is often the name of the game: banks will sometimes step up to finance part of a firm contract with a large customer. This was the situation facing Collins Consulting , a Chicago area provider of contingent staffing services.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? In fact, Jim Collins – best selling business book ever, “Good to Great” – on page 30 in that book, he says, “you know we debated calling these great leaders ‘servant leaders’”, he said. And that’s what’s it all about.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Back when you started leadership development working with those unions, how did servant leadership come to you? In fact, Jim Collins – best selling business book ever, “Good to Great” – on page 30 in that book, he says, “you know we debated calling these great leaders ‘servant leaders’”, he said. And that’s what’s it all about.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

” As I think about the leaders I’ve studied, those who are winning big in tough and demanding fields, what strikes me is that they’ve developed compelling answers to four questions that get to the heart of what lifts their spirits and heightens their performance, what rallies others to help them succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

I just tell them, 'Please make something great,'" says Liam Collins, who oversees the Los Angeles facility, told the paper. "We Toyota wasn't just looking for superior quality and just-in-time inventory management from suppliers, they were vested in helping suppliers become more innovative and creative. They provide the talent.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog.

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Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

That''s why the first principle of change is originality — for leaders to see their organization and its problems as if they''ve never seen them before, and, with new eyes, they need to develop a distinctive point of view on how to solve them. They reinterpret what''s come before to develop a line of sight into what comes next.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The former creates efficiencies and propels markets; the latter drives creativity and innovation. Knowing that he was going to apply his creative energies, he inquired about purpose and mission and vision. Jim Collins told us many years ago to focus on getting the right people on the bus. Then there's talent.

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Succession CFO Collins Bottom-up 15

The Empowered Buisness

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Bold visions also catalyze new creative thinking. As best selling author, Jim Collins, notes: There is a big difference between being an organization with a vision statement and being a truly visionary company. The reasons why big visions are easier? Because they challenge status quo thinking. They stir passions and motivations.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works. Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 2, 2011

A graduate of Harvard College and Tulane School of Medicine, Edward M. (“Ned&# ) Hallowell is a child and adult psychiatrist and the founder of The Hallowell Center for Cognitive and Emotional Health. He was a member of the faculty of the Harvard Medical School from 1983 to 2004. He is considered to be one of [.].

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