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Unleash the Power of the Hedgehog Concept

Sales Wolf Blog

This metaphor, which captures the essence of strategic focus versus broad knowledge, has been explored through Isaiah Berlin’s essay "The Hedgehog and the Fox ," and further applied to the business world by Jim Collins in his seminal work " Good to Great."

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The Power in a Powerful Thank You

Let's Grow Leaders

A specific, relevant thank you has the power to energize and keep people moving. ” Powerful Thank Yous. ( I mean, I would anyway, but that’s the power of a thank you. I first learned this ring, the bell, I heard it from author Jim Collins, who wrote good to great in many other books, but I was, I heard him speak.

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Boosting Team Performance: 3 Ways to Make Your Team’s Engine More Powerful

RapidStart Leadership

The post Boosting Team Performance: 3 Ways to Make Your Team’s Engine More Powerful appeared first on RapidStart Leadership. Here are three things leaders can learn from engineers who have figured out how to make jet engines go faster.

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Should I Quit This Workplace Conflict? How to Know When It’s Time to Leave

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’ve been following our recent research and writing, you know we’re working on a book to empower you to deal with conflicts better and faster (Harper Collins, Spring 2024). There are some situations you can’t save and some people who won’t engage, even with a well-spoken powerful phrase. And, we’re not naïve.

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What Makes A Great Company Per Jim Collins

Eric Jacobson

magazine’s June 2012 issue featured a compelling article about author and leadership expert Jim Collins , who has studied leadership for 25 years and penned four best-selling books. Two of the most powerful takeaways from the article for me are Collin’s definition of a great company : “To be great, a company has to make a distinctive impact.

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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. Never underestimate the power of lousy leaders to demotivate people and destroy organizations. [.]. But as his research grew, he realized great organizations had one thing in common, great leaders.

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

The Power of And via @stratandbiz. Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins’ Top Ten To-Dos for Young Leaders by @pauljsohn. 25 Powerful Coaching Questions to Get Where You Want to Go by @JesseLynStoner. 25 Powerful Coaching Questions to Get Where You Want to Go by @JesseLynStoner.

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