Skip Prichard

JANUARY 19, 2021

We struggle to define what culture means for us as individuals and certainly as organizations. That’s the first of my seven steps for creating a performance culture: leadership defines it–because performance can mean very different things for different organizations. Are you trying to expand your market share or cut costs?

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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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Lead on Purpose

JULY 21, 2009

Every positive outcome that transpires in any organization is a result of efforts of the people therein. Technology and automation certainly improve the work people do; however, no tools or equipment will ever replace the people in a successful organization.

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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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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. Do you feel that you stayed true to your ethics and that your decision grew you as a leader in your organization? Good To Great. What was the result?

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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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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

High-trust leaders, on the other hand, see their role as a stewardship, guiding people, assets, and decision-making—protecting the values and vision that make an organization what it is. It’s natural for strong leaders to feel they make a vital difference to everything—and everyone—in an organization. And that requires humility.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Focus on driving-down the most complex tasks to the lowest levels of the organization, and then leverage with talent, capital and technology while avoiding the creation of margin eroding dependencies. Thanks for sharing Dan.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

One of the first things you need to understand as a CEO is what your time is worth relative to others in the organization. The most productive, high-performance organizations have the ability to deliver fairly complex solutions, and complete difficult tasks at the lowest levels within their organization.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. Vision is the core of culture, and without it organizations will never move beyond mediocrity – if they get that far. I'd add that a good vision isn't just the leader or the organization. Vision is often misunderstood.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 26, 2016

To move the needle in your organization in 2016, the first place to start is by asking thought-provoking questions. BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” Next time a problem arises within your organization, take 5 minutes and ask …. Let’s dig in!

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

I’m always amazed at the number of organizations that charge sub-par leaders with mission critical tasks and then wonder why they failed to meet their objectives. Furthermore, in well run organizations you can determine which initiatives are most important to the enterprise by examining which leaders are tasked to what initiatives.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (Sam Decker, Decker Marketing). ”Overall, I found this book to be well-organized, yet a slow read because my brain kept exploding with ideas while reading selected units.” Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). ” (Gary Whitehair, High Performance Business). “But the book doesn't stop there!

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

” Love isn’t “the word” found in most organizations. He shows that the most successful organizations create fanatical loyalty that goes way beyond reason to highly charged emotional connections. Fear is more like it. Fear of criticism, fear of failure, fear of getting caught, or fear of speaking up.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2012

The foundational material — mission and values — of a company can be critical to the overall success of the organization – but they’re often forgotten. However, at their best, a mission (or ‘reason for being’) and values give an organization a future to live into. So how do organizations get to this point?

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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 Why is it not THE leadership model that every organization aspires to? So why is it not more common? Thank-you Jim.

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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 Why is it not THE leadership model that every organization aspires to? So why is it not more common? Thank-you Jim.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

link] Arthur Rasco I would like to nominate Dr. Kara Gibson who is serving in Haiti right now with international relief organization Samaritan's Purse. Here in Owasso, OK there is an organization called Owasso Community Resources. link] Dan Collins Mike, Leaders inspire us by their example. but you’ll not find that here.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Leaders who leverage social media successfully for their organizations can bring about great change. Organizations can use social media to connect more effectively with customers (both internal and external), improve service and responsiveness, and monitor perceptions of their brand. Adjustments or adjournment. It was a game changer!

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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

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. Organize more daytime events. Engage a diverse planning committee. ” 7.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

Who are the Top Five organization's on Fortune's list for 2011? I spend much of my time visiting organizations of many different shapes and sizes, in many different fields, with very different business strategies, product offerings, and organizational cultures. There are plenty of organizations with cool technology or hot products.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The term “company DNA” is sometimes used as a shorthand for an organization’s culture and strategy — a metaphor for what makes it unique. We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. Second, DNA does not change over the life of an organism.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In his book, Built to Last , Jim Collins describes the very successful succession planning process that GE’s CEO, Reginald Jones, took to find a new CEO. Who within your organization has the potential to succeed you? Challenges for Mid-Market Companies. Redefining Succession Planning for Mid-Market Companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

Or banking on career advancement opportunities only to realize that your employer seldom fills open roles from within your organization. They can benefit greatly from assessing the distance between their recruitment marketing and the actual employee experience. Let Your People Do the Talking.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

More than 190 member countries committed to “eliminate poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030, together with 16 other “big, hairy, audacious goals” — to use Jim Collins’ memorable phrase. Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals will improve the environment for doing business and building markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Unease is rippling through financial markets, and a sense of anxiety has overtaken society. In times like these, even for leaders committed to building a more prosperous future for their organizations, it’s easy to surrender to pessimism. Do you and your colleagues work as distinctively as you compete?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

As James Collins and Jerry Porras wrote in their 1996 classic “Building Your Company’s Vision” : Core values are the essential and enduring tenets of an organization. But the new paper’s third finding contradicts the idea that values should be timeless.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

The idea that shareholder value should be the organizing principle of the corporation is of relatively recent vintage — it was only in the 1990s that it really became widely accepted — and as legal scholar Lynn Stout keeps explaining , corporate law has far from fully embraced it. No, and no, actually.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

“We have to disrupt ourselves before the market does.” Perhaps no approach has captured the imagination of big companies yearning to get more nimble than the lean startup method: quickly building and launching minimum viable products — MVPs — and then iterating and pivoting based on market feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

If all organizations face the risk that their people will undertake reckless or unethical behavior, how should they protect themselves? Jeff Skilling, as a condition of his employment at Enron, insisted the company adopt mark-to-market accounting. Maine Senator Susan Collins countered by pointing out that (1.)

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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. Organizations need people who get marketing, including self-marketing, to flourish and prosper. Humility is not hospitality, courtesy, or a kind and friendly demeanor.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Well, what goes for individuals goes for organizations, too. How did your brand move the needle in a market category? This simple exercise grows out of a powerful question I heard years ago from advertising legend Roy Spence , who says he got it from Jim Collins of Good to Great fame. But ultimately.in

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

I just tell them, 'Please make something great,'" says Liam Collins, who oversees the Los Angeles facility, told the paper. "We Organizations don't — and shouldn't — accomplish that by dangling financial incentives and lures. We provide the space, equipment and expertise. They provide the talent.". What should it mean?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

None of us likes to admit to bad decisions, but imagine how much harder that is for someone who has been chosen to lead a large organization precisely because he or she is thought to have the power to see the future more clearly and chart a wise course. Gary Loveman, CEO of Harrah's Entertainment, is someone who gets this.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

They''re people like Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook COO and author of Lean In ), who is advocating a big new idea from within an organization. Jim Collins has created a long-lasting enterprise supported by the sale of books and media, as well as fees for consulting, speaking engagements, and workshops.

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The Empowered Buisness

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Vision statements, mission statements and strategic plans in many companies reduce to mere academic exercises with no real value in driving an organization forward. Weak visions are meaningless superlatives or vague language that have no energy and fall flat on your organization. Let’s take a look. How would you rate your vision?

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