Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

As Jim Collins describes in How the Mighty Fall , hubris was at the core. Obsessed with a focus on successful reports, these leaders avoided negative news and data. As a strategic leader, you cannot operate in the smaller space that defined you as an expert. An organization had to lay off a third of its workers.

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Execution 360-Degree Feedback Collins Learning-by-Doing 356

Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ian McAllister, General Manager at Amazon, reports that one of his greatest challenges as a new manager was thinking too small. Unfortunately, diving deep into operational details carries a heavy opportunity cost. I have seen this failure happen with highly skilled technical professionals. Do you give credit to your team?

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Automotive Collins Learning-by-Doing CEO 489

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. Yes, I do”.

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Collins Leadership Operations Travel 150

The Practical Leader

MAY 13, 2020

These leaders operate from core values of partnership and participation. Many research reports showed that layoffs sometimes provided short-term relief but hurt most companies in the long-term: A study in the Academy of Management Journal , found that big layoffs often create even bigger turnover spikes soon after.

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Collins Long-term Short-term Decentralization 119

Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

As Jim Collins, the author of Good to Great points out, it’s not just about getting the right people on the bus, but getting the right people in the right seats on the bus. It provides direction and boundaries for the team to operate and channels their energy toward their goals. A team charter functions like banks for a river.

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Team Strategy Sports Banking 127

N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Extraordinary greatness today requires us to adopt the story of the fox and the Hedgehog in Jim Collins’ outstanding book Good to Great. Design the campaign plan with compressed timeframes (Parallel Operations). Achieve Flawless Execution: Operation Arizona – the Mop-up: Plan-Brief-Execute-Debrief (Grand Strategy).

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Execution Objective Learning-by-Doing System 298

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

The newly released report analyzing that day slams the police and the government for ineptitude, much like the infamous 9/11 report in the U.S. 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. We have seen this happen before.

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Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14