The Practical Leader

JANUARY 23, 2019

I had an exchange of messages with a reader about my blog post Stupid Busy: Is Your Leadership Team Overloading Your Organization? The reader, who we’ll call George, wrote, As a middle manager who is on the receiving end of this, you are hitting the nail squarely on the head. Maybe when I give notice after finding another job!

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 24, 2020

The nature of crisis management is that you can’t plan ahead for them. Yes, we have business contingency planning but a true crisis is often completely unexpected.). So, if we can’t plan, how do we react? Listen to others, assemble a team, deputize other leaders. This holds doubly true during times of crisis.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 Why Your Good Leadership Isn’t Great. How can you make the leadership leap with your team and go from just being a good leader (and that isn’t bad) to a great leader?

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Leadership Collins Licensing Ethics 225

Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 11, 2019

“Arrogant leaders require everything to go through them, and that weakens the team.” It’s because humble leaders understand that their ideas, goals, strengths and concerns aren’t the only ones that go into the mix of a high-performing team. How do you model humility for your team? You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds?

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Servant Leader Collins Simon Leadership Styles 71

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 8, 2014

The 100-plus page book, co-written with Jim Collins, Philip Kotler, James Kouzes, Judith Rodin, V. What is our Plan? And, if #4 and #3 above don''t match up correctly, then the organization must take action to set a plan to correct the disconnect. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Nonprofit Leadership Peter F.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place? Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity?

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 27, 2021

I was continually inspired by the concrete actions that leaders took to lead and communicate with heart, helping carry forward their teams in tough times as well as the calmer ones. I started planning more time for informal catch ups and saw how much they re-energized me and the team.

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Supply Chain Leadership Meyer Open-book 65

Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader? Navy SEALs Lead and Win Two leaders of SEAL Team Three's Task Unit Bruiser offer leadership advice pulled from their harrowing experiences in Iraq. Extreme Ownership: How U.S.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 12, 2014

However, social media can be an effective marketing tool when it is designed and implemented in alignment with an overall marketing plan which includes traditional marketing (brand marketing, collateral, advertising, PR, digital and mobile marketing, etc.). Here are some comments from Jim Collins about the book. Question 2.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

As much as it may be politically incorrect to say so, it’s not nearly as much about the team, as it is the leader’s ability to assemble and lead the team. In all but the rarest of circumstances, teams simply don’t function well in the absence of sound leadership. is who they are going to put in charge?

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Bottom-up Blog Objective Brand 366

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company culture and propel you forward.” “People want guidance, not rhetoric; they need to know what the plan of action is and how it will be implemented. ” –Jim Collins, Good to Great. ” –Jim Collins, Good to Great.

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Covey Welch Long-term Collins 125

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Did you bestow the title upon yourself simply because you had the authority to do so, or are you the right person for the job? As the founder, can you, or should you, attempt to grow with the company?

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses the right question in his blog Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions? He ends with, “given our inability to predict, should managers bother to base plans on predictions?” So what should leaders do about planning for the future?

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 8, 2012

Good to Great , Jim Collins, Harper Business, New York, 2001, pages 12-14. ” - Jim Collins and Morten Hansen, Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck — Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy — these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will.

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Emotional Intelligence Collins Learning-by-Doing Download 68

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Lindquist : Professional will, which is defined in Jim Collins’ famous book, Good to Great. Professional will and general curiosity are two core leadership skills we look for in team members at Zane Benefits. It was hard, but with the help from some key team members (especially Christina Merhar and Michael Dyer), we got it done.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

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. He concludes the interview with his plans to “re-read a few times as more details click into place each time.”

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 6, 2010

These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! Target B – This is a big, but potentially believable goal.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 8, 2012

Good to Great , Jim Collins, Harper Business, New York, 2001, pages 12-14. ” - Jim Collins and Morten Hansen, Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck — Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy — these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will.

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Emotional Intelligence Collins Learning-by-Doing Download 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

My manager and team practiced an egalitarian decision-making process in which we would meet, discuss everything from content marketing campaigns to social media tactics, and collectively come up with strategies to move forward with. Engage a diverse planning committee. There was no explanation for what initiated these changes.

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Tim Milburn

APRIL 9, 2011

But momentum will soon fade if it’s not nurtured, managed, and fed with an intentional plan. When a team or organization has momentum, it can overcome obstacles easily and without much effort. Oftentimes, a team loses momentum because they’re focused on too many things. Focus on your #1 goal. Just Starting Out!

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2012

The corporate mission and values are created by the senior leadership team, captured on posters, and strategically tacked up around the building. Some of the following thinking and exercises were inspired by an article called Building Your Company’s Vision , by Collins and Porras, the authors of Built to Last.

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Teamwork Collins Newsletter Participative 56

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

John Rego was a Ranger Team Leader in Iraq. Later, she was brought on as a staff member to help coordinate volunteer medical teams to help with basic medical needs that arose in the villages and tent camps, ie malnutrition, minor illnesses, heat exhaustion, etc. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

So if it's outside your control, why bother to try to manage it? In our new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and I studied the role of luck in explaining corporate success. Our research suggests that you can indeed manage luck, although perhaps not in the way you might think. Are great companies just luckier than the rest?

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 27, 2010

That’s an oft quoted managerism that speaks to the importance of (in Jim Collins’ words) getting the right people on your bus. Getting the right person on your bus from the get go is probably one of the most important management activities you can do, so make sure you have the right fit. down the line. But, we all make mistakes.

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Roundtable Talk

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

In Jim Collins’ must-read book “Good to Great” , Collin’s coined the phrase “red flag mechanism”. The red flag is a structure that helps leaders avoid serious missteps by empowering people on their teams to raise issues, problems, challenges, etc. immediately. Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink. ← Say what?

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

They were continually improving as a team. The master craftsperson would continually improve while teaching the apprentice in a plan, do, teach and improve cycle. Plunkett, Raymond Attner and Gemmy Allen, Management: Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations, Thomson South-Western, 2008, p. Andrew Ortony, Gerald L.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 19, 2010

For leaders, the flick offers some interesting lessons in what can happen with a great team and a focus on your long-term goals. Teams form around the need to achieve a common purpose. management expectations, groupies, fame, fortune) is demonstrated time after time through the film retrospective. Happy leading!

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So I convinced the plant manager they gotta bring this guy back. So the plant manager didn’t understand how they could be getting such good results, if he wasn’t beating them or kicking them.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Fortunately, Bezos gave you his plan, if you just know where to look. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Management Advice from Jeff Bezos. The biggest surprise after studying the Amazon letters to shareholders written by Jeff Bezos is how much management advice he provides.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

And yes, many of us have also seen evidence that its opposite, humility, inspires loyalty, helps to build and sustain cohesive, productive team work, and decreases staff turnover. 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.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. The five years of research that Collins and a team conducted to prep for the book consisted of examining 1,435 U.S.,

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

How can you accept the responsibility to develop a team if you’re not developing yourself? Best wishes Scott… [link] Dan Collins Mike, Excellent post. Before too long I plan to invest in a Kindle, but at the moment I am rereading the wonderful book THE BRAIN THE CHANGES ITSELF, and am making many new applications as I read.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 9, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. The 100-plus page book, co-written with Jim Collins, Philip Kotler, James Kouzes, Judith Rodin, V.

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Drucker Mentor Mission Statement Tips 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Recruiting in today’s ultra-competitive job market is tough and success can often hinge on the team that you already have in place. Some sources suggest that in the start-up world the team is second only to timing when it comes to recruiting. The team is more important than the idea, the business model, and funding.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

One hundred years ago, the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen and his team planted the Norwegian flag on the South Pole, becoming the first humans in history to reach it. They had won against the British team, led by Robert Falcon Scott, who would arrive 34 days later, only to stare in defeat at the flag waving in the wind.

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