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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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The 5 Disciplines of Wiki Management

Leading Blog

Rod Collins writes in Wiki Management , “Today’s managers may spend more time soliciting input from their workers, but at the end of the day, the basic social technology remains the same: The managers are still the bosses, the workers are still subordinates, and the latter are still expected to do as they are told.”

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Collin Powell's 13 Rules of Leadership

CO2

Here is Collin Powell’s 13 Rules of Leadership. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc., Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

The Power of Pressure : Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution by Dane Jensen (Collins, 2021) What’s the most pressure you’ve ever been under? Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other.

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What Makes a Great Leader?

Next Level Blog

They do the work – My own shift in moving away from the heroic model of leadership started in graduate school under the tutelage of two powerful mentors in my life, Ron Heifetz and Marty Linksy. We’re a team of 5 million,’ I think it was very powerful.” Her response was immediate, “This is a disaster, and it’s getting worse.

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5 Simple Ways Good Leaders Become Great

Lead from Within

In Good to Great, Jim Collins writes, “Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.” THE LEADERSHIP GAP.

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25 Especially Inspiring and Empowering Quotes From Today’s Top Leaders

Lead from Within

“In technology it’s about the people: getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.” ” –Jim Collins, Good to Great. “Power can be taken, but not given. . “It’s not the tools you have faith in. –Steve Jobs.

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