N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

These questions are some that leaders everywhere must consider on a more frequent basis with greater purpose in mind if they are really focused on providing greater impact across their organizations. . Extraordinary greatness today requires us to adopt the story of the fox and the Hedgehog in Jim Collins’ outstanding book Good to Great.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

We had worked hard to get our operations in order and build a great team. The fact was, I was getting more comfortable with being more detached from the day-to-day operating decisions. 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.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 23, 2021

He shows that the most successful organizations create fanatical loyalty that goes way beyond reason to highly charged emotional connections. airline in The Wall Street Journal’s annual ranking for 2020 based on key operational performance metrics. They were named the #1 U.S. Leaders bring the love.

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Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

A few that standout are the value of setting goals and working to achieve them, persevering through failure, and the importance of everyone knowing their role and working together to make the team successful. However, the most important lesson I’ve learned about being part of a successful team, or leading one, is the need for trust.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

That said, it is nonetheless safe to say that CEOs who find a way to focus their efforts on values, vision, mission, strategy, team building, innovation, networking, and branding will be the CEOs who achieve the highest and most sustainable levels of success.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

We cannot control much of what happens around us, but the choices we make, as Jim Collins and Morten Hansen’s research confirms, determine our success. For their study, the authors chose a set of major companies that achieved spectacular results over 15 or more years while operating in unstable environments.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. Both scalable and non-scalable businesses can achieve growth and sustainable success.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Operating environments change rapidly. Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, who held servant leadership principles (though many believe the company no longer reflects the values of it’s founder), understood this concept: The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. Sam Walton.

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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. link] Bridget Haymond I agree completely that vision is the underpinning of any successful venture, be it corporate or personal.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

It was at this precise moment that I came to understand that the most important factor in determining whether or not something will be successful is who is charged with the responsibility for making it happen. However, even in these circumstances personal leadership is still at the forefront of the success.

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Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Chances are you have heard of Jim Collins’ groundbreaking framework, ' A Culture of Discipline.' Include Jim Collins' timeless book Good to Great as well. Following is an excerpt from Jim Collin's 'A Culture of Discipline'. Jim Collins is famous for advocating - "get the right people on the bus" (Good to Great).

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. Leaders who leverage social media successfully for their organizations can bring about great change. Thanks for laying out key success factors. Success will come if you pursue excellence.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Jim Collins likens it to turning a giant, heavy flywheel. In Turning the Flywheel , Collins shares practical insights and clarity about the process. You can see it at work in successful organizations, but the trick is finding your flywheel. Collins lists seven essential steps to finding and capturing your flywheel.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Students ran operations. As a result, organizations must devote considerable resources to teach these fundamentals. We must move beyond quality in the product, the individual and the organization, and toward a broader cultural movement as a society, and that starts with our children. Parents were patrons.

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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. In other words, the organization’s behavior is not congruent with its declaration of ideals. This potential future galvanizes and focuses the organization.

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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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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Then joining and remaining on Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For list, Zappos.com’s motto is “We’re a service company and we just happen to sell shoes”, achieved these results and more behind their successful servant leadership. Servant leadership has proven successful and has a positive impact for the long term, time and again.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Then joining and remaining on Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For list, Zappos.com’s motto is “We’re a service company and we just happen to sell shoes”, achieved these results and more behind their successful servant leadership. Servant leadership has proven successful and has a positive impact for the long term, time and again.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Most of us know that success in today’s work world requires continuous growth and learning. In our years coaching executives, my colleagues and I have noticed that people who improve in ways that best support their success look for the overlap between what their organization needs and what will give them the most satisfaction.

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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. The successful CEOs in our study displayed an odd behavior that we labeled " productive paranoia." This means leaders have to increase the attention capacity in an organization.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

By Jim Collins. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. .” 3. By Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. By Daniel H.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 8, 2017

It’s encouraging to see more leaders identify connection as a primary factor contributing to their organization’s sustained success. Fortune magazine recently recognized Theo Epstein, President, Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball and the Cubs organization, as #1 on its world’s greatest leaders list.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

“My way or the highway&# thinking, and/or positional dictatorships rarely create the culture and performance demonstrated by winning organizations. You see, the most important item to understand is that success as a leader has very little to do with your perception, but rather it has everything to do with the perception of others.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Wild thinking is what happens when you pose 25 thought-provoking questions to 25 intelligent, creative leaders in organizations as diverse as Google, Gap, Time Out and Twinings. A Successful Career is a Marathon. And many organizations have. He operates in a world where craft and artistry are real positives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Well, what goes for individuals goes for organizations, too. 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. Whatever the original source, it's worth taking seriously as a guide to what matters in terms of success.

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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. Some of the nuggets that Jim did disseminate were as follows: Success that translates in hubris leads to failure. More power!

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Jonathan Heng Hi Mike- Consider these topics: - Legacies of Leadership – How the impact of effective leadership inspires the organization to a higher standard (ie. link] Dan Collins Mike, I would particularly like someone to address the popularity of "politically correct" leadership.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 29, 2019

“What ultimately constrains the performance of your organization is not its business model, nor its operating model, but its management model.” (The The Future of Management, Gary Hamel) Factors of organizational success: Jim Collins… Continue reading →

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Even more impressive is that some of the most successful leaders throughout history were known to read one book every single day. Abraham Lincoln who only had one year of formal education credited his appetite for reading with his success. Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Do I have your attention yet?

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The Practical Leader

JULY 7, 2011

The company is a major start up success story coming out of the University of Waterloo’s computer science program during the 1980s. As with many fast growing startups, their pioneering product development and marketing power made them a major international success. The company is at a critical leadership crossroad.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

While you need no credentialing to be a coach, you will find no shortage of organizations willing to sell you their certifications. This suggests a more significant contributor to a successful coaching outcome is a person's state of mind rather than the qualifications and skills of the coach. As you say, it is not about the coach.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

One of the best examples of this is the relationship successful leaders enjoy with their high-performing executive assistants. As Jim Collins wrote in his book Good to Great , leaders start by getting the right people on the bus and in the right seats. Leaders know how to choose the right person for the job.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leadership styles depend on the situation : I know most of you have read more about contextual and situational leadership from me than you probably care for, however flexibility, fluidity, and adaptability are key elements of all successful leaders. link] Dan Collins Thanks Mike. Thanks for stopping by Tom.

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