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The Two Qualities that Make Leaders Great

Leadership Freak

When Jim Collins set out to write, “Good to Great,” he set out to write about great organizations, not great leaders.… Some leaders are humble. Others are driven. The great ones are both.

Quality 259
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Foxes And Hedgehogs: Which One Are You?

Lead Change Blog

She introduced me to the Hedgehog Concept from “Good to Great in the Social Sectors,” a supplement to the business book by Jim Collins, comparing the qualities of hedgehogs and foxes. The standing joke with my boss was that I was really good at something , we just needed to figure out what it was.

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

Consider the timelessness of these key qualities: Eight Characteristics of Excellent Companies. Like Jim Collins accomplished in Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t , Peters and Waterman developed a methodology for their study. Love and greed. You know them when you see them.

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045: How Conscious Leaders Build Value | with Fred Kofman

Engaging Leader

In the landmark book Good to Great , Jim Collins studies what drives average companies to take a quantum leap and become extraordinary. These leaders, whom Collins calls “Level 5,” channel their ego ambition away from themselves into the larger goal of building a great company.

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How We Overlook Hidden Talent

Lead Change Blog

Phil Collins – When Peter Gabriel left Genesis in the mid-1970’s, the band auditioned over 400 vocalists before they discovered their drummer already had the voice they needed. Phil Collins asked to be given the mike and a chance. Resume scanners don’t qualify talent. Ball was resolved to prove everyone wrong.

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Restaurant Week (An elementary look at quality culture fundamentals)

Deming Institute

Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, defined quality as “pride in workmanship.” In other words, something we are doing is sabotaging a national culture of quality.

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Rethinking Good To Great

N2Growth Blog

I’ve had issues with some of the concepts contained in Jim Collins book Good To Great since it was first released. Given the legions of those who have drunk the Good to Great Kool-Aid, I realize today’s post might be akin to spitting into the wind. That said, it is nonetheless my hope to burst a few bubbles and bust a few myths.

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