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. Stages three and four lean heavily on disciplined management systems and processes. It’s a big competitive edge.

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Innovation Agility Strategic Planning Core Competence 59

Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

Going ‘Jim Collins’ By the time my travels took me back to Billings, a couple of months later, I knew what I had to do. The source of going “Jim Collins” (and a great book). I had met Clark four years previously when he was a young IT operations manager and taken a chance on him, and it paid off.

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Collins Leadership Operations Travel 150

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2020

Part Three : Finally, Blakey reviews the impact of the three pillars and discusses governance, remuneration, corporate social responsibility, reporting, scale, regulation and structure. Jim Collins captured this difference when he talked about level 5 leaders in his book, Good to Great.

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Execution Collins Open-book How To 65

Women on Business

JUNE 29, 2011

Guest post by Susie Collins (learn more about Susie at the end of this post). Women are CEOs, teachers, doctors, managers, chefs, legislators and more. About Susie Collins. Susie Collins is a relationship advisor. The tension and stress have been there for, it seems, all time. It continues today.

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Career Collins Energy Efficiency 160

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

It’s a similar dynamic to what Good to Great author Jim Collins describes as Level 5 Leadership – the combination of fierce resolve and deep humility. There was a wonderful example of that results and relationships Level 5 approach in last weekend’s deeply reported Wall Street Journal article on how the U.S.

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Long-term Collins Health Care Executive Coaching 211

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

7 (week ended October 19), as reported in The Wall Street Journal. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Harper Collins Publishers Leadership Books Liz Wiseman Rookie Smarts' Liz Wiseman ''s new book, Rookie Smarts , jumped onto the Best-Selling Books Hardcover Business List at No.

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 2, 2015

Forbes reported recently that as many as two million employees quit their jobs each month. It’s only fair to acknowledge that some managers earn their scorn. Protect Us from Management. Represent Us to Management. Engagement Organizational Effectiveness boss bosses development managers supervisors'

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Collins Bureaucracy eBook Consultative 120

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 18, 2018

Part Three : Finally, Blakey reviews the impact of the three pillars and discusses governance, remuneration, corporate social responsibility, reporting, scale, regulation and structure. Jim Collins captured this difference when he talked about level 5 leaders in his book, Good to Great.

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Execution Collins Open-book How To 50

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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Uncertainty Collins Review Books 81

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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Newsletter CRM Customer Loyalty Collins 154

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Whether you need a leadership and management expert for yourself or your team, you’ll find someone great below. 2 43,900 26,300 471 Ken Blanchard Leadership Speaker, Leadership/Business Guru, and Author of over 50 books, including The One Minute Manager. Project Manager at @courtinnovation. 13 10,300 817 Joseph J.

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Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 6, 2010

These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. Five Reasons to Make Discomfort Your Friend How to Get Lazy People to Work Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday Ten Ways to Make a Great First Impression Five Minutes - a Key to Successful Time Management Kevin Eikenberry: Thanks Dave!Kevin

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Goal Workshop BHAG Learning-by-Doing 184

Eric Jacobson

MAY 12, 2016

Part Three : Finally, Blakey reviews the impact of the three pillars and discusses governance, remuneration, corporate social responsibility, reporting, scale, regulation and structure. Jim Collins captured this difference when he talked about level 5 leaders in his book, Good to Great.

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Execution Collins Open-book Reputation 50

N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity? Extraordinary greatness today requires us to adopt the story of the fox and the Hedgehog in Jim Collins’ outstanding book Good to Great. Isn’t that what productivity should be doing?

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Execution Objective Learning-by-Doing System 298

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 23, 2007

Here’s a summary of three studies on how to identify leadership potential: Development Dimensions International DDI has developed a set of criteria that they say will accurately predict executive success, based on their own experience and research, and research by others, including work by Jim Collins for his book Good to Great ; Morgan W.

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Agility How To Leadership Charan 121

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” Only those interested in leadership as more than mere ego gratification have a chance to build something that outlasts them.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Reviewing How to Be Exceptional in Canadian HR Reporter Dave writes “ once in a decade, there’s a business book worth reading and remembering … there are many excellent books that simply reiterate things we should already know.

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Books Collins How To Leadership 53

Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2014

Jim Collins immortal business bestseller, Good to Great , created a revolution in many businesses and an explosion in book sales. Collins knew it. Then customers get angry and tell other potential customers through social media, or some form of online reporting like Trip Advisor or Angie’s List. Self-improvement.

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Collins Customer Loyalty Reputation Competitive Advantage 54

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 19, 2013

Although she refers to them as leaders, suggesting they have supervisory responsibilities, they could also be direct reports at the management level or workers at the “shop floor” level. Multipliers “extract [.].

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Wiseman Environment Reference Report 80

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 2, 2013

We in the media have been irresponsible fools for reporting those forecasts. " - Jim Collins and Morten Hansen, Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck — Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. Freedman , Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us and How to Know When Not to Trust Them. "You And the experts themselves?

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Freedman Collins Uncertainty Magazine 49

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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Management Banking Committee Risk Management 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

The newly released report analyzing that day slams the police and the government for ineptitude, much like the infamous 9/11 report in the U.S. Jim Collins and I studied this question in our book Great by Choice in which we analyzed CEOs and companies that led successfully in such a world.

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Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 18, 2017

It’s one thing to get all the “ right people on the bus ” (to steal a Jim Collins phrase from his indispensable book “Good to Great” ), but it’s quite another to get the team to create an unstoppable collective force that can achieve greatness. Building a great team is one of those leadership skills that can make or break you.

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Team Collins Open-book Follow-up 265

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

People who study successful corporations — I'm thinking of Jim Collins , Rosabeth Moss Kanter , Michael Beer , and many others — keep reporting that one important trait that most of them share is that they don't emphasize the maximization of shareholder value.

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Short-term Collins Bottom-up Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I asked whether he'd received any integration support or training given his promotion from individual performer to manager of a large and complex diocese. My friend is one of more than 4,000 bishops reporting to the pope, who in turn lead some 400,000 priests, who tend to more than one billion followers. Of course, the answer was no.

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How To Delegation Collins Commitment 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

We have now rerun the analysis for Steve Jobs, and here is his final report card. The question on the minds of most managers around the world is, well, how did he do this (and can we learn some of those things)? In the new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten analyzed the 1997-2002 period and discovered something interesting.

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CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Whether you manage or coach leaders, or are just trying to provide some feedback to your own boss, here are three simple points you may wish to consider in order to have this difficult (but necessary) conversation with them: Tap into their personal motives : Nobody likes to be criticized — especially high-status individuals.

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Self-aware 360-Degree Feedback How To Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

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. And to the extent it is considered by managers rising through the ranks, it is often misunderstood. Leadership Leadership development Managing yourself' Second, get a coach.

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Development Self-aware Press Release Collins 9

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. Leaders make the news, they don’t report it. There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

That's why I've begun to encourage senior leaders of companies, executives who run business units or departments, even mid-level managers who are responsible for a specific brand, to step back and take time (probably much longer than twenty minutes) and write their organization's obituary. What legacy did your company leave in its industry?

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Company Brand Banking Long-term 10

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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Mentor Collins Mission Statement Tips 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

“ The lack of women in an organisation is a management failure ,” says a recent report published by King’s College London and sponsored by KPMG. Just pointing out that 60% of university graduates and 70% of consumer-spenders are female isn’t enough to convince managers to behave differently.

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Management Collins Simon Education 11

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Another benefit is that much of the content produced in this medium is not from the typical industry pundits, but rather true “in the trenches” thought leaders that see things coming long before journalists report it in the news, or the so-called gurus publish it in their latest book. Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

According to a study by the Center for an Urban Future, small businesses that win large supply contracts report average revenue growth more than 250% in the two years after their first sale. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle. Innovate and invest, even when it hurts.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

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

Women on Business

OCTOBER 28, 2011

This phrase comes from the book Good to Great by Jim Collins. I was recently in a management meeting where one of my peers mentioned ‘having to communicate’ to his employees. Don’t report me to HR, but it means, don’t sweat the small stuff. I spent 3 months really trying to help her be as effective as the rest of the team.

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Leadership Policies Price Learning-by-Doing 172

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

” Pragmatists have observed that dozens of advertisers had deserted his show , The O’Reilly Factor , while others have reported that Rupert Murdoch’s sons pushed for the anchor’s ouster amid financial concerns and low employee morale. I came across a 1981 article by Eliza G.C. Using the U.S.

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