N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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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. The first two stages depend on people or leadership skills. It’s a big competitive edge.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2020

Perhaps now more than ever it's time for the book by John Blakey called, The Trusted Executive: Nine Leadership Habits That Inspire Results, Relationships, and Reputation. Question: Let’s talk about being humble and how it relates to great leadership. It’s easy to mistake arrogance for confidence. Blakey : The author, C.S.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 13, 2017

Leadership can bring with it a sense of isolation. A Harvard Business Review post noted that over half of CEOs feel a sense of loneliness, and 61 percent believe it hinders their performance. This can be particularly true of new leaders and those chosen from among a peer group to take on a formal leadership position.

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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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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Thanks for the book publisher for sending me a review copy of the book. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Harper Collins Publishers Leadership Books Liz Wiseman Rookie Smarts' One of her earlier books is, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Marva Collins showed that children who were previously labeled “learning disabled&# were actually victims of the label they were given by teachers who didn’t know how to teach to them. Collins worked with were predicted to fail, but instead she believed in and discovered their potential. The children that Ms.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Jim Collins described the humility of Level 5 leaders in Good to Great and how it often came as the result of a life threatening event or religious experience. In Lincoln’s Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk, we see how Abraham Lincoln’s suffering from depression throughout his adult life developed humility and determination.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 18, 2018

Perhaps now more than ever it's time for the book by John Blakey called, The Trusted Executive: Nine Leadership Habits That Inspire Results, Relationships, and Reputation. Question: Let’s talk about being humble and how it relates to great leadership. It’s easy to mistake arrogance for confidence. Blakey : The author, C.S.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 21, 2009

Recently I decided to re-read (actually listened to) to the classic business book Good To Great by Jim Collins where he discusses, among other things, the value of people. Collins makes an important distinction with regard to the people in an organization: you need to get the right people.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Anderson writes about how much he doesn’t know about leadership, and how in many instances, he is in over his head. It seems the more I study leadership, the more I realize how little I actually know. It seems the more I study leadership, the more I realize how little I actually know. Integral Leadership Review, 5.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Leadership has been a lifelong passion for me. I’ve also written seven books, hundreds of articles and blogs, facilitated over a thousand retreats and workshops, and delivered hundreds of keynotes on personal, team, and organizational leadership. It heralds a mega-shift in leadership training and development.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Last month, members of three discussion groups on the business professionals social media web site LinkedIn submitted their recommendations for the best books about leadership. Drucker, Jack Welch and John Maxwell.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

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. You can do it, he says. You really can.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

The logic behind customer retention management (CRM) is simple — It costs far less money to keep customers happy than to spend much more money replacing the unhappy ones with new customers. In the book, From Good to Great, Jim Collins said, “People are not your most important asset, the RIGHT people are.”

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 12, 2016

Perhaps now more than ever it's time for the new book by John Blakey called, The Trusted Executive: Nine Leadership Habits That Inspire Results, Relationships, and Reputation. Question: Let’s talk about being humble and how it relates to great leadership. It’s easy to mistake arrogance for confidence. Blakey : The author, C.S.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (David Rothacker, Rothacker Reviews). ”We interrupt our coverage of meaningless business books to review a book that made the cut: Six Disciplines for Excellence by Gary Harpst.” ” (Robert Morris, Top 10 Reviewer for Amazon.com). ” (Trevor Hall, Servant-Leadership Blog).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 7, 2011

Regrettably, the old rules of employment have created in many organizations a serious crisis that is the result of command and control management, hierarchical [.].

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 18, 2010

Leadership & The Value Of An Inquiring Mind → July 18, 2010 · 11:58 pm ↓ Jump to Comments The Practical Gift of Humility A few weeks ago Mary Jo Asmus published a blog post entitled Giving Away Your Gifts. Many of you will have heard of Jim Collins. It is that, that makes it a gift. The simple answer is no.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

After reviewing all the comments, I decided to talk on how to lead effectively when dealing with the collision of cross generational cultures within an organizational setting. Registration for this free online event will not only give you access to my video, but also presentations featuring some of today’s leading influencers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

For enterprise risk management, key policies include a statement of risk appetite and explicit risk tolerance levels for critical risks. The company's performance measurement and incentive systems, and the degree to which risk management is considered, will also have a profound impact on employee behavior. Set clear policies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In our new book Great by Choice , Jim Collins and I pondered that question. What then were the leadership characteristics that separated the winning leaders from their industry peers? How do you lead successfully in an uncertain, disruptive, even chaotic world? Yes, but here's the rub.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

It was he who encouraged your own leadership qualities, because your success ultimately honored him. Each entertainment niche may not be your ‘cup of tea,’ but relating to others will create common bonds and exhibits leadership. Review what you once did correctly and how your competitors failed. ” Dave Mason.

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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? Leadership Managing yourself Personal effectiveness'

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I have live video above, and in the text that follows I’ll share my opinions on the best and the worst of WBF Day 1… Jim Collins kicked-off the day with everything you would expect from him. Never confuse power with leadership. There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

It may well be why so many (incompetent) men rise ahead of women to leadership positions, as Chamorro-Premuzic argued in a recent HBR post. Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great. First: subject yourself to a 360 review.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

During the past year – and especially the past six months – I’ve been hearing a different and much more personal initial question: “Can you help me better manage my own life?” In Good to Great , Jim Collins wrote that the best leaders were characterized by a blend of “humility and fierce resolve.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

general management, human resources, supply chain, you name it — that I have heard about through our recruiters or by word of mouth. As a CEO, I can't possibly hire all the people the company needs, so it's important for all the other hiring managers in the company to be proactive, too.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. If we spend our entire workday sitting in meetings and answering emails, it leaves little space in our minds to do the hard thinking that is essential to good decision making and leadership. You and Your Team Series. Staying Focused. Srini Pillay. William Treseder.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 28, 2011

As I pondered what to share, I decided to share the leadership lessons I have learned along the way. In Leadership-people will do amazing things for people they like. This phrase comes from the book Good to Great by Jim Collins. We reviewed open positions within the store, found a couple that would be better for Carol.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

This "make your own luck" principle has become a central chapter of a book I am co-authoring for Harvard Business Review Press. Jim Collins, author of Good to Great , helped identify humility as one of the key traits of the high performing leader. But luck in business isn't entirely, well, luck.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

They also understand that the only sustainable form of long-term business leadership is the capacity to create grassroots leaders at every level of the organization. As Jim Collins, the great management guru, has argued, "The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 8, 2017

Previously I’ve written about Cubs manager Joe Maddon and the Chicago Cubs’ Connection Culture. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, recently wrote about research that showed social media was making us lonelier. You May Also Enjoy: 5 Team Leadership Insights from Cubs’ Skipper Joe Maddon. show empathy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Not wide-eyed optimism, an unthinking faith in the inevitability of success, but what the leadership scholar and civic reformer John Gardner famously called “tough-minded optimism,” a blend of original ideas, deep convictions, and resilience in the face of change. The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

But at least Obama did manage to make a decision to scale back. With all these psychological tendencies acting on a leader's judgment, it's a wonder anyone ever manages to pull the plug on an effort that is consuming resources but going nowhere. Saying you can't do it all is not a failure of leadership, it is effective leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

If ever a country needed a Jim Collins-style Level 5 leader who also embodies Daniel Goleman's notions of emotional intelligence and Peter Drucker's ideas about effectiveness , it's Egypt right now. But it's not just the media (and let's not forget that "media" is a plural word) scouring Tahrir Square for someone to take charge.

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