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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. Like Jim Collins accomplished in Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t , Peters and Waterman developed a methodology for their study. It became required reading in business school classes.

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This is What TRUSTworthy Leadership Looks Like in Turbulent Times

Lead Change Blog

In his book Good to Great , Jim Collins popularized the concept of the “Stockdale Paradox.” A little bit of understanding goes a long way in building trust in turbulent times. Turbulent times scream for leaders to be calm, steady, consistent, and reasoned in their approach to management. S teadiness.

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Taking leadership to the next level

Lead on Purpose

In recent days I’m re-listening to Good to Great by Jim Collins. Collins’ definition is simple: “Level 5 leaders blend the paradoxical combination of deep personal humility with intense professional will.” This is, as Collins puts it, a “study in duality.” So can you and I become a Level 5 leader?

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The Power in a Powerful Thank You

Let's Grow Leaders

The reason I’m writing is to say, thank you, thank you for bringing some light into my leadership management journey. So if you have a leadership or management related question, you can send that to me. It’s a very long series of smaller wins and activities that you need to acknowledge and to keep people going. (

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

It leads to short-term thinking. The Power of Pressure : Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution by Dane Jensen (Collins, 2021) What’s the most pressure you’ve ever been under? The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. It also undermines long-term business performance. Blog Post ).

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Layoffs Rarely Pay Off: Here are 15 Alternatives

The Practical Leader

Leaders who care about people and building long-term trust, treat layoffs as the very last, desperate step. Jim Collins’ Good to Great research determined, “half of the companies we were studying didn’t do it (layoffs) once. Great leaders have long practiced: we’re all in this together.

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Why Leaders Should Always Take The Blame (And Never The Credit)

Terry Starbucker

You can find and read more about this lesson, and its backing by facts and history, in one of my all-time favorite business books, “ Good to Great ” by Jim Collins. 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.

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