Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 2, 2012

I recall writing a self review at at time that I really felt I was being under appreciated, and deserved a promotion. Yes, my good man Jim Collins figured it all out in my favorite business book of all time, Good to Great. And it was researched, and documented, many times over. Because they didn’t DO it. They just showed the way.

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Career Advancement

JULY 30, 2018

Jim Collins~. Arthur, a manager at a mid-size firm, read a troubling statistic: According to Harvard Business Review, one in five high-performing employees plans to leave their job in the next six months. He wanted to groom his high-performing employees for success , growing their leadership skills.

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LDRLB

MARCH 17, 2010

Irwin presents the findings of his research on leadership failures in Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership. These stages are eerily similar to those outlined by Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall. Overall the book presents some interesting findings on the stages of leadership failure.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 7, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Your Leaders, Hubris or Humility? Collins is right. Collins also pointed out that so often a crucible in life — cancer, economic depression, emotional depression, death of a loved one, etc. why is everyone smiling?

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 7, 2018

A Reel Leadership Flashback Article The Ratchet & Clank movie brought the Sony PlayStation game to the big screen. Unfortunately, Ratchet & Clank received less than glowing reviews. Unfortunately, Ratchet & Clank received less than glowing reviews. So, are there leadership lessons in Ratchet & Clank?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 25, 2012

I do not believe that studying these leaders will reveal the secret formula to great leadership. Books like Built to Last (Collins and Porras, 1997) and Good to Great (Collins, 2001) have laid a foundation. Leadership is about building organizational capabilities and harnessing the collective wisdom of the organization.

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LDRLB

MAY 18, 2010

In his classic work, Good to Great , Jim Collins makes the case for how organizations and leaders must confront the brutal facts. Leadership book review hayzlett' Years later, most of us are believers, but fewer are practitioners. One of the reasons for this is a lack of know-how.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Companies Thrive Despite Them All Jim Collins and Morten T.

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Companies Thrive Despite Them All Jim Collins and Morten T.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Questions about these intertwined leadership characteristics recently came up in workshops and online discussions. Charismatic leadership seems to especially confuse many people. It’s a popular media stereotype of strong leadership. ” Humility is a vital part of the me/we continuum so central to leadership.

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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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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

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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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

” Four Steps to Balancing Agile Leadership and Innovation Management Agile organizations are knowledge-creating cultures thriving on controlled chaos. The first two stages depend on people or leadership skills. Establish a regular review process for your team/organization to reflect on the reasons for failures and successes.

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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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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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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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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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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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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Background: This post is part of a series defining the principles of Servant Leadership via the acronym SERVANT ( Selfless , Empathetic , Resolute , Virtuous , Authentic , Needful and Thorough). For more, visit the overview at this link or sign up for the free online course, Servant Leadership 101. The only constant is change.

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QAspire

JUNE 8, 2015

Gone with the industrial age is the concept of traditional leadership where people at the top of pyramid exercise the power in a hierarchy. I could see the same contrast/creative tension between “dare” and “serve” that Jim Collins described as “Fierce Resolve” and “Humility” as a trait of Level 5 Leader. The last is to say ‘Thank You’.

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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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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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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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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. Jim Collins, meet Mike Porter.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

In the book, From Good to Great, Jim Collins said, “People are not your most important asset, the RIGHT people are.” Then each supervisor conducts a daily “line-up” to review one of the commandments with his employees ten minutes before each shift. Here are seven steps to build customer loyalty.

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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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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 7, 2011

Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary Joel Kurtzman Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons (2010) “Organizations themselves are mindless, so if people don’t repair them, no one will.”

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Tim Milburn

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Home About SPEAKING RESOURCES Archives CONTACT Five Perspectives To Evaluate Your Experiences: #5-Recruit 0 Comments If you whittle down your definition of leadership to its most basic function, it’s about people. I recently posted this on Twitter : Leadership is all about how people react to what we say and do. Its Quiet Here.

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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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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Collins is the author of my all-time favorite business book, “ Good to Great &# ( affiliate link, profits to National Park Foundation) , where through a ton of research he identified the most critical traits of companies that were able to sustain above-average growth rates for long periods of time. EVERY instance. Popularity: 3% [ ?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. link] Dan Collins Mike, You must have been sitting in on our meetings here. Being excellent is an excellent idea but without vision excellence alone won’t change your game. It was a game changer!

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 19, 2011

Conant for the Harvard Business Review blog. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Douglas R. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * How do you go about finding the right candidate [.].

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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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