CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

She told a number of stories of people who had suffered great adversity (like paralysis, blindness etc) and had still managed to become great successes in life. From a Harper Collins review: Truly successful people don’t merely tolerate discomfort—they embrace it and seek it out again and again. Great book - simple messages.

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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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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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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 8, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind Jocelyn Glei, Editor Innovating Analytics: Word of Mouth Index- Use the Next Generation of Net Promoter to Increase Sales and Drive Results […].

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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' Wizeman is a researcher, executive advisor, and speaker who teaches leaders around the world.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 13, 2017

A Harvard Business Review post noted that over half of CEOs feel a sense of loneliness, and 61 percent believe it hinders their performance. Sometimes leader isolation can come from a sense of getting stuck between the competing demands of higher management and the needs of your team. Collins Click To Tweet. Caught between.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

An incredible book by Jim Collins — relates how certain companies overcame their obstacles and pushed themselves from being just good companies to the stars of their industry. I’d like you to think back to three major or difficult decisions you had to make over the past year and review how did you make them? Good To Great.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In more than 20 years of executive coaching, I long ago lost count of the number of conversations I’ve been in about the challenges of personal time management. Here then, is my highly abbreviated 10-point ultimate guide to personal time management: Accept that you can’t do it all. – Ten quick hits that you can put to work this week.

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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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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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LDRLB

DECEMBER 2, 2010

But as a manager with employees, I am nowhere near an expert. I think of Jim Collins’ oft-quoted analogy of getting people on and off the bus, and into the right seats on the bus. I wonder if Mr. Collins has ever had to do that personally? Integral Leadership Review, 5. Leadership collins hr theory vanderpyl'

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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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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. You can do it, he says. You really can.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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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). ” (Ethan Johnson, The Vision Thing).

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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. ” You can read Dave’s full review at Some books deserve a long life: The next Good to Great?

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 7, 2011

Regrettably, the old rules of employment have created in many organizations a serious crisis that is the result of command and control management, hierarchical [.].

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The LinkedIn members came from these discussion groups: • ExecuNet Executive Suite • The Talent Buzz • Keller Graduate School Of Management In all, 64 books were recommended and the variety is impressive.

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2012

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’ll note when reviewing the Top Leadership Blogs list below that I did not apply a numerical hierarchy to the rankings, but rather just disclosed my data points – I decided it would be a better list if I let you draw your own conclusions and render your own opinions. You can follow Phil on Twitter @philgerb.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2019

Caitlyn Collins, a sociologist at Washington University in St. In Europe, women told Collins they had more help, but at times cultural norms around their personal and professional roles had yet to catch up. She’s the author of the book “Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving.”

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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. Some years ago, at a former company, I began noticing a curious series of events. ” 7.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 18, 2010

Many of you will have heard of Jim Collins. Share this: 7 Comments Filed under Building Relationships , Employee engagement , Leading Teams , Self Knowledge , Uncategorized Tagged as Character-based Leadership , humility , Jim Collins , Leadership , Level 5 leadership , Uriah Heep ← Come Back Common Sense…We Need You!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., link] Dan Collins Mike, You must have been sitting in on our meetings here. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers. It was a game changer! Your smart acronym is very focused.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

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. Two management tactics could resolve this: First, junior people ought to be able to pass on information horizontally across units (and not just to their immediate superiors).

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Spence cites as one of his inspirations management guru Jim Collins, who, as a young Stanford professor, sought advice and counsel from his learned colleague John Gardner. What did Spence learn from Collins? Leadership Managing yourself Personal effectiveness' Are you as determined to stay interested as to be interesting?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

We’ve discovered that using a version of Jim Collins’s “hedgehog” idea , from Good to Great , helps clients think it through. Collins found that great organizations focus on three things: what will drive their economic engine, what they can be best in the world at, and what they are most passionate about.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

Review what you once did correctly and how your competitors failed. ” Judy Collins (1968). The take-back for business is to grow in consistent fashion, sustaining the down times with realistic activities. I recommend that organizations periodically revisit their earlier successes. It is important to link nostalgia to the future.

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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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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. What do leaders dop to provide a safe environment for people to explore, test, try, fail, learn, review, try again etc. Let me expand.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

But professional development – improving yourself at work beyond meeting your specific performance goals – is too often left to the rote box-checking of annual performance reviews. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself. Managing Yourself Book. Some of the investments will take time to show results.

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