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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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Debbie Laskey On Social Media, Brand Audits And Leadership Books

Eric Jacobson

While a business would not trust its finances to an intern, it should only trust its social media to a full-time member of its marketing team. Jim Collins,'' Built To Last , addresses the question, "Why are some companies able to achieve and sustain success through multiple generations of leaders, across decades, and even centuries?"

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Jim Collins, Meet Michael Porter

Harvard Business Review

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. Jim Collins, meet Mike Porter.

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Buzzwords Aren't All Bad | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

link] Dan Collins Academics like to debate. link] Dan Collins Buzzwords are definitely not trite. As you pointed out in your comment toning down the serious nature of discourse can also lighten the mood and be more effective in doing so. Thanks for sharng Sami. The best argument in the world will always lose to a two by four.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If your skill sets are best suited for business development, product development, branding, finance or other areas you may want to consider playing to your strengths by taking a senior position in the area of your subject matter expertise and hiring the best chief executive you can find to lead the company.

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Vision and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. Mission Share and Enjoy: View Comments Oarabile Thats a gud advice Mike and keep the good work up and empower you generation Mark Oakes Good post, Mike Ah… the 'Vision' Thing … the underpinning of great things to come.

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Leveraging Down for CEOs | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

link] Dan Collins Mike, Your posts and insights are truly very high value. I've found that defining what something is without explaining what it is not often doesn't tell the whole story. By addressing both sides of an issue you help to remove the ambiguity surrounding said issue. Best wishes for continued success Ben.

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