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What Can Hedgehogs Teach Us About Strategy?

LDRLB

Short answer: it’s about learning, not planning. The very word strategy offers up connotations of planning and images of executives in suits and ties sitting around a large table at on off-site meeting facility laying down quarterly objects. Collins, J. Strategy collins hughes and beatty learning planning strategy'

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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

The Empowered Buisness

BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” The best definition that I seen is that a BHAG is a statement of strategic intent. A bigger, bolder, more powerful outcome than goals with a target timeframe of 10 – 30 years from now. QUESTION 4: What’s at stake?

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The Big Picture of Business – Tribute to Dick Clark

Strategy Driven

Finding common ground about the zeal and joys inherent in running a company results in better buy-in and support of the goals. The mentor requests pro-active changes of mentee, evaluates realism of goals, offers truths about path to success and shortcomings of mentee’s approaches. ” Judy Collins (1968).

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Re-Imagining New Leadership Possibilities in 2014:

The Empowered Buisness

Vision statements, mission statements and strategic plans in many companies reduce to mere academic exercises with no real value in driving an organization forward. Big, bold goals are actually easier, more fulfilling and a heck more exciting to achieve than small goals. Let’s take a look.

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Read Good To Great

Eric Jacobson

Saturday, March 20, 2010 Read Good To Great Near the top of virtually every list youll see of the best leadership books, youll find Good To Great , by Jim Collins. The five years of research that Collins and a team conducted to prep for the book consisted of examining 1,435 U.S., The book focuses on 11 good-to-great companies.

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Ask These Five Questions

Eric Jacobson

The 100-plus page book, co-written with Jim Collins, Philip Kotler, James Kouzes, Judith Rodin, V. What is our Plan? And, if #4 and #3 above dont match up correctly, then the business or organization must take action to set a plan to correct the disconnect. Who is our Customer? What does the Customer Value? What are our Results?

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What It Takes to Win: Extreme Lessons from Polar Explorers

Harvard Business Review

When Jim Collins and I studied who won big in highly uncertain industries, we found that those leaders — including Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Herb Kelleher — had much in common with Amundsen, while their peers shared traits with Scott (see our book Great by Choice ). There's even more we can learn here. Channel paranoia.

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