The Practical Leader
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. There is no orderly path that can be mapped out and budgeted. ’ …in the simplest terms, failure is the ultimate teacher.”
Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 14, 2018
Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?
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Leadership Freak
APRIL 8, 2014
When Jim Collins set out to write, “Good to Great,” he set out to write about great organizations, not great leaders.… Others are driven. The great ones are both.
Leading Blog
JANUARY 14, 2014
Rod Collins writes in Wiki Management , “Today’s managers may spend more time soliciting input from their workers, but at the end of the day, the basic social technology remains the same: The managers are still the bosses, the workers are still subordinates, and the latter are still expected to do as they are told.”
Leading Blog
APRIL 30, 2017
Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins’ Top Ten To-Dos for Young Leaders by @pauljsohn. How Leaders Build Great Organizations … And How They Can Destroy Them by @LollyDaskal. If You Want To Innovate, Avoid These Myths by Greg Satell @Digitaltonto. by @KateNasser.
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2022
They believed if the characteristics of excellent companies could be identified and shared with corporate America, more organizations could perform better and lift the country out of its doldrums. Ongoing innovation with new products, services, and processes through autonomy and entrepreneurship. Hands-on, value-driven leadership.
Mike Cardus
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
Consulting and coaching organizations to develop systems-of-work that lead to desired behaviors. The people I am working with often quote Jim Collins Good-to-Great : “…leaders of companies that go from good to great start not with “where” but with “who.” I’ve written more about this: Consequences of Too Many Levels of Organization.
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