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Your Leadership Operating System: Ego Or Eco?

Lead Change Blog

In his best-selling classic business book, “Good to Great,” author Jim Collins explains that it’s natural for ambitious leaders to have a healthy ego. The best leaders can effectively use this ambition to achieve what’s best for the organization, not for their own individual gain.

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Multiplying the Effective Intelligence of Your Organization

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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3 Ways To Be A Level 5 Leader

Eric Jacobson

Author and leadership expert Jim Collins defines Level 5 leaders as those who: Pursue goals with the ferocity of lions while displaying the humility of lambs. According to Collins, who has studied leadership for 25 years, this level of leader is a rare breed.

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20 Things all Great Organizational Leaders Do

Leadership Freak

Jim Collins said he wanted to write a book about great organizations not great leaders. But as his research grew, he realized great organizations had one thing in common, great leaders. Never underestimate the power of lousy leaders to demotivate people and destroy organizations. [.].

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What Bad Leaders Can Do To An Organization

Joseph Lalonde

J im Collins in his book Good to Great shares that we need to get the right people in the right seats on the right bus. How To Destroy Your Organization. Bad leaders destroy organizations. Bring poor leadership into your organization, you’re going to have issues. See how it can apply to your organization.

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Forget the Bus! Develop Talent to Create a Fast, Nimble Fleet

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Organizations need people who know what they’re doing, where they’re going, and have the skills to get there. ” It’s frustrating to try leading an organization without the right talent. Leadership Jack Welch Jim Collins stack ranking talent development' We call that “talent.”

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Strategic Resilience

Lead Change Blog

What’s clear today is that each organization is traversing a series of temporary normals – brief chapters in their company’s story, accelerated as conditions change. Holding this dynamic perspective helps leaders synchronize their organizations with the reality of fluidity. Resilient cultures survive. Practicing Strategic Resilience.

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