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Leveraging Down for CEOs | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Another simple rule of thumb that allows you to maximize the equation mentioned above is to leverage down to the lowest level of talent possible while still insuring an acceptable level of execution. As an up-and-coming preparing for management, I'm working to grasp these core concepts.

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Great by Choice

Leading Blog

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. For their study, the authors chose a set of major companies that achieved spectacular results over 15 or more years while operating in unstable environments.

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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? Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. link] Dan Collins Mike, You must have been sitting in on our meetings here.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

. $16 billion dollar a year Starbucks did this by offering a higher than average salary, health insurance for part-timers and free college education for employees. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. Can you create music?

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

. $16 billion dollar a year Starbucks did this by offering a higher than average salary, health insurance for part-timers and free college education for employees. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. Can you create music?

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Three Leadership Skills That Count

Harvard Business Review

In our new book Great by Choice , Jim Collins and I pondered that question. You can't sit around being fearful; you must act, like Herb Kelleher, who insisted on cutting costs and running lean operations in good times, so that they would be prepared for the next storm, imagined or real. Empirical Creativity. You must also create.

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