The Practical Leader

JUNE 23, 2021

That’s particularly true in the airline industry. In his decades of research studying what differentiates great companies, Jim Collins has featured the company’s long track record of investment returns way beyond other companies — in their industry and most others. They were named the #1 U.S.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Power of Pressure : Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution by Dane Jensen (Collins, 2021) What’s the most pressure you’ve ever been under? When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. Blog Post ). How did you react? What helped? What didn’t? Blog Post ).

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Human Resource Management (HRM) is a broad term that encompasses human resources management, employee relations , compensation, benefits, training, performance evaluation, recruitment, selection, and other related activities. There are many human resources books , but they often focus on specific industries or companies.

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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. Good To Great. It chronicles how they made the leap, what they did, and what they didn’t do. Unported License.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 24, 2022

These are real people opening up about their emotional journeys and how they managed to lead with humanity during these unprecedented times for business and society. Grossman : I’ve been incredibly humbled by the book’s overwhelmingly positive reception.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 27, 2021

Leaders and Change Makers featured in the book include : Tamer Abuaita , Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain, SC Johnson Paula Angelo , Vice President, Internal and CEO Communications, The Hartford Nadeen Ayala , Chief Communications Office, ABM Industries Liru Chan , Head of Marketing, Visa Singapore Adam Collins , Chief Communications & (..)

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 12, 2014

She developed her marketing expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the non-profit arena, and the insurance industry. Here are some comments from Jim Collins about the book. Debbie Laskey has 15 years of marketing experience and an MBA Degree.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2021

These are real people opening up about their emotional journeys and how they managed to lead with humanity during these unprecedented times for business and society. Grossman : I’ve been incredibly humbled by the book’s overwhelmingly positive reception.

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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. They call these companies "10Xers" for providing shareholder returns at least 10 times greater than their industry. They zoom-in and zoom out to manage risk and recognize luck.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Human Resource Management (HRM) is a broad term that encompasses human resources management, employee relations , compensation, benefits, training, performance evaluation, recruitment, selection, and other related activities. There are many human resources books , but they often focus on specific industries or companies.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Here are some of my favorites: Homeboy Industries , created and run by “Father Greg&# Boyle, a Jesuit Priest, was launched in LA as a bakery to provide an opportunity for former gang members to work beside their enemies. Collins worked with were predicted to fail, but instead she believed in and discovered their potential.

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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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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Management Advice from Jeff Bezos. The “hidden in plain sight” management principles Bezos discussed in the letters is what caught my attention. “As

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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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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” Only those interested in leadership as more than mere ego gratification have a chance to build something that outlasts them.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The L-word makes hard-nosed managers squirm. These are the same managers loudly pronouncing goals of higher employee engagement and increased customer loyalty. These managers use lots of “leader-speak” about vision, values, engagement, or caring but their rhetoric is heartless and empty. ” Ya gotta love it!

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

I have gone through the recruiting process with hundreds of college graduates and have been struck by the general lack of some key fundamentals that are necessary regardless of industry. At some point, should industry take responsibility and make a commitment for progress toward a societal quality culture? References.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 18, 2010

Many of you will have heard of Jim Collins. He refers to it as “The Five&# , meaning level five leadership and explains it here: Do we have to be captains of industry to give the gift of humility? It is that, that makes it a gift. The simple answer is no.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 7, 2011

RIM created its industry and through strong market leadership built a world class brand. See Wise Managers Treat Layoffs as a Last Resort for some of this earlier research. The company is a major start up success story coming out of the University of Waterloo’s computer science program during the 1980s.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. These are only some of the celebrated examples.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. These are only some of the celebrated examples.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Until a few years ago Steve Cronce’s Raphael Industries did $1 million dollars a year of specialized industrial painting for customers within driving distance of their plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Spence cites as one of his inspirations management guru Jim Collins, who, as a young Stanford professor, sought advice and counsel from his learned colleague John Gardner. What did Spence learn from Collins? Colleagues from the same company, peers from the same industry, friends from the same profession and neighborhood?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

Companies and industries need to embrace change sooner, rather than becoming a victim of it later. The entertainment industry is the best at being flexible, spotting new trends, changing with the times, packaging creative concepts and leading cultural charges. Other industries could well learn from the entertainment business practices.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In our new book Great by Choice , Jim Collins and I pondered that question. To get some empirically derived answers, we studied leaders of companies that grew to become great in highly uncertain, even chaotic, industries. They include the biotech, semiconductor, personal computer, and airline industries. Productive Paranoia.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 19, 2010

management expectations, groupies, fame, fortune) is demonstrated time after time through the film retrospective. Overnight sensations are overrated… in an industry where bands implode after their one big hit, Rush’s slow and steady ascent has brought a global allegiance of followers and a forty year career. Happy leading!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy Tech industry'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

The organizations I admire don't just lead their industries in terms of innovation or financial performance or market share. As Jim Collins, the great management guru, has argued, "The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. Is this company a leader in creating leaders up and down its ranks?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Borisch, product manager at a long-established outfit called Milwaukee Gear Company. How enlightening is it, really, to learn from the "best in class" in your industry, especially if best in class isn''t all that great? So why not learn from innovators outside your industry as a way to shake things up and leapfrog your rivals?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

In HubSpot’s case, we were toggling between focusing on marketing manager types at midsize businesses and focusing on small business owners wearing multiple hats, including marketing. If you’re a manager and make a wrong decision, you just roll it back. It cripples your ability to manage. Fast vs. right.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

link] Dan Collins Mike, I would particularly like someone to address the popularity of "politically correct" leadership. What do leaders dop to provide a safe environment for people to explore, test, try, fail, learn, review, try again etc. Let me expand. Would Churchill, Patton or their ilk have flourished in leadership today?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

That's why I've begun to encourage senior leaders of companies, executives who run business units or departments, even mid-level managers who are responsible for a specific brand, to step back and take time (probably much longer than twenty minutes) and write their organization's obituary. What legacy did your company leave in its industry?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Industry-adjusted total shareholder return: 6,621%. 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. Hid did it all.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

More than 190 member countries committed to “eliminate poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030, together with 16 other “big, hairy, audacious goals” — to use Jim Collins’ memorable phrase. But awareness of the challenges is the first step toward managing them. during the assembly. of the time.

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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. They provide the talent.".

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Without great talent, our moonshot aspirations and ambition to help Viessmann — a soon-to-be 100-year-old family business and industrial heavyweight in the heating and cooling industry — master its transition to the digital era would never be more than pretty words on paper. Find your mix.

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