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

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 8, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind Jocelyn Glei, Editor Innovating Analytics: Word of Mouth Index- Use the Next Generation of Net Promoter to Increase Sales and Drive Results […].

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Chief Operating Officer Blog Collins Cooper 75

Women on Business

JUNE 29, 2011

Guest post by Susie Collins (learn more about Susie at the end of this post). Women are CEOs, teachers, doctors, managers, chefs, legislators and more. About Susie Collins. Susie Collins is a relationship advisor. The tension and stress have been there for, it seems, all time. It continues today.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Management spent time looking for new tools to track and manage staff. The second is that it creates a horrible environment where nobody wants to work, and everyone avoids management. Jennifer Collins. Increasing management oversight backfires. Increasing management oversight backfires. What does that mean?

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Servant Leader Micromanagement Collins Metrics 87

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

An incredible book by Jim Collins — relates how certain companies overcame their obstacles and pushed themselves from being just good companies to the stars of their industry. This work by Rich Gee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Good To Great. Unported License. Unported License.

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Leadership Collins Licensing Ethics 225

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. A manager taking my emotional state into account during a time of crisis. Jennifer Collins. Click here to listen on Apple Podcasts.

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 2, 2015

It’s only fair to acknowledge that some managers earn their scorn. Protect Us from Management. Represent Us to Management. In his book Creative Followership , Jimmy Collins recounts the realization of his own limitations as a self-employed individual. It’s not that cut and dried any more.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In more than 20 years of executive coaching, I long ago lost count of the number of conversations I’ve been in about the challenges of personal time management. Here then, is my highly abbreviated 10-point ultimate guide to personal time management: Accept that you can’t do it all. – Ten quick hits that you can put to work this week.

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Tactics Strategy Management Collins 315

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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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. Be creative. You really can.

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Porter Collins Competitive Advantage Strategy 15

N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity? Extraordinary greatness today requires us to adopt the story of the fox and the Hedgehog in Jim Collins’ outstanding book Good to Great. Isn’t that what productivity should be doing?

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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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Uncertainty Collins Review Books 81

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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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader? shares the secrets to how executives and managers can become the leaders their company needs. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies Jim Collins and Jerry I.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses the right question in his blog Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions? He ends with, “given our inability to predict, should managers bother to base plans on predictions?” See New Year’s Prediction Alert: It’s Silly Season Again!

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Heskett Collins Uncertainty Short-term 45

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. Eroarea lui NU in management:[link] [.] I couldn’t disagree more…In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on what I refer to as the fallacy of no.

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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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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. It is a manifesto of human creativity. 2 43,900 26,300 471 Ken Blanchard Leadership Speaker, Leadership/Business Guru, and Author of over 50 books, including The One Minute Manager. Humans Create Futures.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It is emphathy that enables leaders to understand both their teams and their customers, and foster an atmosphere of greater creativity and problem-solving. link] Dan Collins Mike, This is a very, very important post. You mentioned a key word — empathy, a critical characteristic of a strong leader. Deb Costello I love this post!

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Selections from Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck — Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen: “We cannot predict the future. 10Xers use difficulty as a catalyst to deepen purpose, recommit to values, increase discipline, respond with creativity, and heighten productive paranoia.

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Collins Uncertainty Crisis Creativity 49

Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 10, 2011

Rethinking Good To Great – @ mikemyatt takes a hard look at Collins’ # leadership piece [link] # Thanks Hank! RT @ Pragmatic_PMP : @ TanveerNaseer You have provided worthy information in a clear way — thank you! RT @ HireBetter : @ tanveernaseer Takes Another Look at Leadership & Change [link] Good read!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You can follow Seth on Twitter @ThisIsSethsBlog Alexa Rank : 4,876 Google Page Rank : 7 PostRank Leadership Score : N/A Number of Posts in last 30 days : 35 TwitterGrader Score : 100 The Management Experts : If you’re looking for a positive spin on leadership then look no further than Phil Gerbyshak.

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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. I spent some time talking with Peter Anderson, the manager of the Mologne House.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In our new book Great by Choice , Jim Collins and I pondered that question. Empirical Creativity. So we should expect these leaders to be highly creative — to create new, wonderful products. The leaders of the average industry peers also displayed lots of creativity. You must also create. Yes, but here's the rub.

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Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 6, 2012

A fantastic case for a better management perspective, mainly that little things like progress can affect big things like profitability. Perhaps the most under-rated book on evidence-based management. Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen. Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

The entertainment industry is the best at being flexible, spotting new trends, changing with the times, packaging creative concepts and leading cultural charges. ” Judy Collins (1968). Companies and industries need to embrace change sooner, rather than becoming a victim of it later. ” The Beach Boys (1966).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Jim Collins. Managers in such companies seem to think that paying people is reason enough for them to perform at their best. It doesn't lead people to be highly engaged or creative. It is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

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Mission Statement Collins Competitive Advantage Motivation 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Are you as consistent as you are creative? Too many companies lurch from one consulting firm to the next, from last year’s hot management fad to this year’s new business model. Too many companies lurch from one consulting firm to the next, from last year’s hot management fad to this year’s new business model.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Management Advice from Jeff Bezos. The biggest surprise after studying the Amazon letters to shareholders written by Jeff Bezos is how much management advice he provides. It is based on chapter 8 of Jim Collins book Good to Great.

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Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Is this company as consistent as it is creative? As Jim Collins, the great management guru, has argued, "The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.".

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Senior managers frown on anything that won't pan out. It is the truth spotted by Collins and Porras. Let us find a way of managing the risk asked of the risk takers. The rock: the new imperative for innovation that has over taken the corporation in the last few years. The hard place: the new intolerance for risk. Margins fall.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The question on the minds of most managers around the world is, well, how did he do this (and can we learn some of those things)? In the new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten analyzed the 1997-2002 period and discovered something interesting. Steve Jobs combined creativity with discipline, and innovation with scale.

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Nick Liddell is Director of Consulting and Richard Buchanan is Managing Director and a founding partner. 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.

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Wilde Brand Open-book Creativity 66

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Borisch, product manager at a long-established outfit called Milwaukee Gear Company. The essence of creativity, he argues, is "figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think." They lurch from one consulting firm to the next, from the most recent management fad to the newest.

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