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LeadershipNow 140: April 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins’ Top Ten To-Dos for Young Leaders by @pauljsohn. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Collaborative Thinking: Do You See Problem Solving as Collaboration? by @KateNasser. Coaches help you find your own answers.

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Rethinking Good To Great

N2Growth Blog

I’ve had issues with some of the concepts contained in Jim Collins book Good To Great since it was first released. Just because an opinion is expressed boldly, and even when data can be developed to support the opinion, opinion doesn’t become fact – it’s still an opinion.

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How the World’s Best Leaders Enhance Their Productivity and Effectiveness

Leading Blog

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. Give Them Kudos: Management consultant Peter Drucker told me he didn’t have much interest in discussing assistants with me because his focus was on strategy and assistants don’t create strategy.

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Frances Hesselbein: To Serve is To Live

Leading Blog

In 1998 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her exemplary leadership as CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, her role as the founding president of the Drucker Foundation, and her service as “a pioneer for women volunteerism, diversity, and opportunity.” My Life in Leadership is full of lessons. Ask, don’t tell.”

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25 Especially Inspiring and Empowering Quotes From Today’s Top Leaders

Lead from Within

” –Peter Drucker. ” –Jim Collins, Good to Great. “You cannot have faith in people unless you take action to improve and develop them.” Treat your employees the way you want your customers to be treated, maybe even better.” ” –Shep Hyken, customer service expert. It is people.”

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Plan Your Professional Development for the Year

Harvard Business Review

But professional development – improving yourself at work beyond meeting your specific performance goals – is too often left to the rote box-checking of annual performance reviews. Professional development takes three main forms: learning, connecting, and creating.

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Brian J. Robertson on Holacracy: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Forbes and Fast Company credit him for developing Holacracy, a comprehensive management system for governing and running organizations that are fast, agile, and that succeed by pursuing their purpose, free from the tyranny of top-down planning that is instantly out of date.

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