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Jim Collins, Meet Michael Porter

Harvard Business Review

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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Book Review: Ruthless Focus

LDRLB

Wally Bock is a fixture in the online leadership community. When reading Ruthless Focus , the parallels to two authors develop immediately: Collins and Porter. Jim Collins in Good to Great offers his “Hedgehog Concept” a simplistic way to develop a strategy by answering three questions. Leadership book review'

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

” (Trevor Hall, Servant-Leadership Blog). Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). “What makes this book unique, not to mention worthwhile? The book is filled with concrete examples, processes and checklists that will help a business owner in creating a successful business.”

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