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Moving from Expert to Executive: Changes Great Leaders Learn to Make

Lead Change Blog

For months senior leaders dismissed warning signs and data from employees about severe problems and had ignored market trends for years. As Jim Collins describes in How the Mighty Fall , hubris was at the core. It was a major trust-buster, and the survivors lost motivation for the work. It could have been a much different story.

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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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065: Influence 3.0: Upgrade from Leadership to Impact

Engaging Leader

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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5 Simple Ways Good Leaders Become Great

Lead from Within

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. ” Lead with self motivation. Let your prime motivation be based in your character. ” Lead the way.

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Why Your Good Leadership Isn't Great.

Rich Gee Group

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. Persuasion, Motivation, & Coaching What techniques do you use to get your teams to efficiently execute company strategy? Good To Great. Unported License.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

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? Blog Post ).

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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

The Empowered Buisness

BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” To learn how to develop and test your BHAG, refer to Collin’s book, Built to Last. Goal success (or failure) depends predominantly on one thing: Motivation. Refuel your motivation when the going gets tough.

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