Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 21, 2013

Do you value operations, maintenance, customer service , engineering, information technology , sales , finance, marketing , accounting – all departments, equally? In Good to Great, Jim Collins explains the best CEOs are not external hires, but brought up through internal development.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 30, 2013

Here are a few quotes to whet your appetite: “Good is the enemy of Great.” –Jim Collins. Product management focuses on releasing the right products to the right markets at the right time; set both financial and operational goals for your product line. Don’t confuse motion with progress.” –Peter Drucker.

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Engaging Leader

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Market conditions changed more quickly, and became more complex and harder to predict. Market conditions changed more quickly, and became more complex and harder to predict. In the early 90s, the Iron Curtain fell. More people started using the Internet, and then the Web. The post 065: Influence 3.0: The post 065: Influence 3.0:

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The Practical Leader

MAY 13, 2020

Only about a third of downsizing companies increased productivity and profits in the next 3 to 5 years, and underperformed in stock markets. Jim Collins’ Good to Great research determined, “half of the companies we were studying didn’t do it (layoffs) once. percent reduction in costs.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 19, 2021

Are you trying to expand your market share or cut costs? To get to a performance culture, ask: how are you ensuring that you are aligned?” – Jennifer Collins. Are you in a growth year? Do you need to hire quickly to fill some gaps or maintain current productivity with the staff you have? Think about it. Why do many people run?

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Exploration — a broad, open search for strategic partnerships, unresolved problems, latent or unmet needs, new markets and customer segments that potentially fit the organization’s Focus and Context (vision, values, and purpose) and its core competencies. This is a rich source of innovation.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Debbie Laskey has 15 years of marketing experience and an MBA Degree. She developed her marketing expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the non-profit arena, and the insurance industry. Marketing options are greater than ever before. Question 2.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 8, 2013

"My Meetings With Mandela" "Thinking Mistakes Our Brains Make Every Day and How to Prevent Them" ''Tis the Season to Focus on the Business Basics Adam Bryant Alison Gopnik Angie Hicks “How I Hire: In Search of the Sir Ernest Shackleton Gene” “The Psychology of Self-Control” Belle Beth Cooper Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/2/13) (..)

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Chief Operating Officer Blog Collins Cooper 75

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. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

In Good to Great, Jim Collins writes, “Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

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? Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. Blog Post ). How did you react? What helped? What didn’t?

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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. Good To Great. It chronicles how they made the leap, what they did, and what they didn’t do. Unported License.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 17, 2010

When reading Ruthless Focus , the parallels to two authors develop immediately: Collins and Porter. Jim Collins in Good to Great offers his “Hedgehog Concept” a simplistic way to develop a strategy by answering three questions. The highlights of the book are the case studies.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

A person could either take several minutes to explain the evolution of technologies, mediums, shift in content paradigms, engagement practices and market dynamics that came together to make the Internet a more valuable and efficient space, or they could just utilize &# social media&# as a descriptive aid to make the connection.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Each week, I share with you one recommended blog post , video , and profile about leadership, communication and/or marketing. The recommendations are be some of my favorite finds that I hope you''ll think are equally interesting and helpful.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen. Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen represents a detailed assessment of companies thriving in times of uncertainty compared with similar organizations not performing so well. However, StrategyDriven Contributors believe there are some flaws in Collins and Hansen’s analysis.

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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. One recommendation is to at least include members of your management team, your Board, marketing team and volunteers when you ask the five questions. If you are leading a nonprofit organization, take the hour or two to read Peter F.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 27, 2021

Leaders and Change Makers featured in the book include : Tamer Abuaita , Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain, SC Johnson Paula Angelo , Vice President, Internal and CEO Communications, The Hartford Nadeen Ayala , Chief Communications Office, ABM Industries Liru Chan , Head of Marketing, Visa Singapore Adam Collins , Chief Communications & (..)

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Supply Chain Leadership Meyer Open-book 65

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

This means people feel “safe” offering different opinions, ideas, suggestions and, as outlined in the research and findings in Jim Collins’ book Good to Great, engaging in “vigorous intellectual debate.” Google research on the core factor fostering high performance teamwork finds that a sense of “psychological safety” is key.

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Organization Teamwork Learning-by-Doing System 158

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Related Post: Keeping it Simple Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Collins Excellent – Simple, Scalable and Succinct Advice. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. Mission Share and Enjoy: View Comments Oarabile Thats a gud advice Mike and keep the good work up and empower you generation Mark Oakes Good post, Mike Ah… the 'Vision' Thing … the underpinning of great things to come.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). “This is a guidebook, with practical business advice, that if followed, will enhance your business and provide solutions to every day small business problems. ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business). “But the book doesn't stop there!

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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.” These disasters have affected popular attitudes toward our entire system of free market capitalism.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

link] Dan Collins Mike, Your posts and insights are truly very high value. I've found that defining what something is without explaining what it is not often doesn't tell the whole story. By addressing both sides of an issue you help to remove the ambiguity surrounding said issue. Best wishes for continued success Ben.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 26, 2016

BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” Missing emerging market trends and opportunities. Let’s dig in! 7 Leadership Questions That Will Move The Needle in 2016. QUESTION 1: What is your BHAG? Being overly optimistic. Environmental/external blind spots.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Thanks for the post, Larry Bruce (@pcmguy) [link] Dan Collins Not bad Mikey – nothing could add to that one. I encourage u and other investors to work make the founder understand their role and way it’s important for them to play it. link] Mike Myatt Thanks Dan…Have a great weekend Sir.

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Entrepreneur CEO Blog Welch 365

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

In their new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten Hansen, feature Southwest in their extensive research on “10X companies.” For example, love and respect is a key ingredient in the company’s early decision to invite unions in as partners from the beginning. So what are the hard results of all this soft love stuff?

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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. To be more specific, for each goal, consider setting a range of targets like this: Target A – This is a perfect world scenario, I/we absolutely want it goal. Target B – This is a big, but potentially believable goal.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

link] Dan Collins Mike, This is a very, very important post. In some circles a lack of empathy is defined as having sociopathic tendencies Thanks for sharing Lori… [link] mikemyatt Hi Deb: Agreed…true strength is born out of love. It addresses one of the most prevalent misconceptions of leadership extremely well.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] 2 Tweets Who’s In Charge? N2Growth Blog By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Who the * is in charge around here?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

link] Dan Collins Mike, If there is one characteristic I admire in leaders and respect in you it is the willingness to state in no uncertain terms (sorry for the play on words) their stance. No seldom takes you where you want to go. Best, Dan [link] mikemyatt Hi Dan: Thanks for stopping by and sharing your insights.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2012

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. Alona is the KeyneLink System Administrator for many of CMI’s clients and manages CMI’s Online Marketing including the Company Website, Newsletter, and Social Media.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

in the comments below… [link] Dan Collins Mike, I believe leadership is pretty simple – not easy, not common, but simple. I'm not sure Godin's work classifies as leadership…though I do read it every day, it's more for marketing tips and deep thoughts. Great work… [link] davidburkus Good list.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

My new book Wind In Your Sails draws from the ideas of Jim Collins and Guy Kawasaki, among others. In the both book Good To Great and the article Aligning Action & Values , Jim Collins elaborates on purpose. Finding Purpose. He explains that it is not sufficient to document your purpose and core values.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I gave a talk at the Canadian Marketing Association in Toronto last week. Leaving the hall, I fell into step with a young marketer. Clearly, this marketer was caught between a rock and hard place. In the words of the young marketer, "the good ideas just sit there.". It is the truth spotted by Collins and Porras.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 In southeast Michigan – arguably the toughest labor market in the world. UAW wasn’t too happy about that.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 In southeast Michigan – arguably the toughest labor market in the world. UAW wasn’t too happy about that.

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