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Could Your Next CEO Come from Any Department?

Modern Servant Leader

Do you value operations, maintenance, customer service , engineering, information technology , sales , finance, marketing , accounting – all departments, equally? In Good to Great, Jim Collins explains the best CEOs are not external hires, but brought up through internal development.

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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. what drives your economic engines (focus areas)? Design the campaign plan with compressed timeframes (Parallel Operations). And equally important – what are you not be the best at?),

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Thanks for the post, Larry Bruce (@pcmguy) [link] Dan Collins Not bad Mikey – nothing could add to that one. Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Restaurant Week (An elementary look at quality culture fundamentals)

Deming Institute

Students ran operations. Edwards Deming, The New Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1994, p. Clore and Allan Collins, The Cognitive Structure of Emotions, Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. Parents were patrons. Deming, The New Economics, see reference 2, p.

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How to Decide What Skill to Work On Next

Harvard Business Review

We’ve discovered that using a version of Jim Collins’s “hedgehog” idea , from Good to Great , helps clients think it through. Collins found that great organizations focus on three things: what will drive their economic engine, what they can be best in the world at, and what they are most passionate about.

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Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

in the comments below… [link] Dan Collins Mike, I believe leadership is pretty simple – not easy, not common, but simple. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). If your blog didn't make the list, please leave a link, description, etc. Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I’m not an MBA.

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