Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 2, 2012

I recall writing a self review at at time that I really felt I was being under appreciated, and deserved a promotion. Yes, my good man Jim Collins figured it all out in my favorite business book of all time, Good to Great. And it was researched, and documented, many times over. Because they didn’t DO it. They just showed the way.

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LDRLB

MARCH 17, 2010

These stages are eerily similar to those outlined by Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall. Full Disclosure: I received this book as a review copy from Thomas Nelson.]. Leadership book review' Stage Two: Hubris: Pride Before the Fall. Stage Three: Missed Early Warning Signals. Stage Four: Rationalizing. Stage Five: Derailment.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Companies Thrive Despite Them All Jim Collins and Morten T.

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Companies Thrive Despite Them All Jim Collins and Morten T.

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MAY 22, 2011

Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary Frank Luntz Hyperion/Harper Collins (2011) A brilliant recycling of valuable business material Frank Luntz identifies what he characterizes as “The 15 Universal Attributes of Winners” (on Page 2) and then “The Nine P’s of Winning: What It Takes to Get to the Top” [.].

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Career Advancement

JULY 30, 2018

Jim Collins~. Arthur, a manager at a mid-size firm, read a troubling statistic: According to Harvard Business Review, one in five high-performing employees plans to leave their job in the next six months. According to Harvard Business Review , 73% of high-performing firms choose not to place a cap on bonus pay.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 27, 2011

For Jim Collins, the word “good” [.]. Good Company: Business Success in the Worthiness Era Laurie Bassi, Ed Frauenheim, Dan McMurrer, with Larry Costello Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2011) How and why companies must prove worthy of consumers’ business, employees’ best efforts, and investors’ dollars What’s in a word?

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LDRLB

MAY 18, 2010

In his classic work, Good to Great , Jim Collins makes the case for how organizations and leaders must confront the brutal facts. Leadership book review hayzlett' Years later, most of us are believers, but fewer are practitioners. One of the reasons for this is a lack of know-how.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

As with Collins’ first book, Built to Last , and with Good to Great (read my review of both books on LinkedIn or The Leader Letter archive ), they compared the outstanding companies to a control group of comparison companies in the very same industries and extreme environments that failed to thrive. Sounding familiar?

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 7, 2010

Published by Michael Lee Stallard on May 7, 2010 06:26 am under E Pluribus Partners , connection culture , employee engagement , intentional connectors At the Chick-fil-A Leadercast, Jim Collins just pointed out that great leaders in his research had the character strength of humility and those who fall could be described as having hubris.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 25, 2012

Books like Built to Last (Collins and Porras, 1997) and Good to Great (Collins, 2001) have laid a foundation. For this reason I was delighted to discover Judgment Calls: 12 Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right by Thomas Davenport and Brook Manville (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012).

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CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

From a Harper Collins review: Truly successful people don’t merely tolerate discomfort—they embrace it and seek it out again and again. I enjoyed that section because it rightly pointed out the success Linda has had despite being a woman and the daughter of the founder. I know Frank (the father) well and am also friends with Linda.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

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? When we get it right on the inside, we can do right on the outside. Blog Post ). How did you react? What helped? What didn’t?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2020

Part Three : Finally, Blakey reviews the impact of the three pillars and discusses governance, remuneration, corporate social responsibility, reporting, scale, regulation and structure. Jim Collins captured this difference when he talked about level 5 leaders in his book, Good to Great.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

From his good to great research, Jim Collins found humility is a hallmark of the very best leaders. If they could shut up long enough to learn, they might discover that it’s a vital trait for great leadership.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Every friday we review the posts from LeaderLab contributors that has appeared on this blog and elsewhere online. Jim Collins on 3 ways to demotivate followers. Jim Collins on 3 ways to demotivate followers. Our review of Scared Cows Make the Best Burgers. Bret Simmons is involved on a new research project.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 13, 2017

A Harvard Business Review post noted that over half of CEOs feel a sense of loneliness, and 61 percent believe it hinders their performance. As Jim Collins says in Good to Great , to give credit, leaders look out the window; to assign blame, they look in the mirror. Collins Click To Tweet. It’s Lonely at the Top.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Thanks for the book publisher for sending me a review copy of the book. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Harper Collins Publishers Leadership Books Liz Wiseman Rookie Smarts' Wizeman is a researcher, executive advisor, and speaker who teaches leaders around the world.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 8, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind Jocelyn Glei, Editor Innovating Analytics: Word of Mouth Index- Use the Next Generation of Net Promoter to Increase Sales and Drive Results […].

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Establish a regular review process for your team/organization to reflect on the reasons for failures and successes. The best new products, services, or methods often come from the wrong people, at the wrong time, in the wrong way, for all the wrong reasons. This is a key component of organizational learning.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

An incredible book by Jim Collins — relates how certain companies overcame their obstacles and pushed themselves from being just good companies to the stars of their industry. I’d like you to think back to three major or difficult decisions you had to make over the past year and review how did you make them? Good To Great.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I think of Jim Collins’ oft-quoted analogy of getting people on and off the bus, and into the right seats on the bus. I wonder if Mr. Collins has ever had to do that personally? Integral Leadership Review, 5. Leadership collins hr theory vanderpyl' But as a manager with employees, I am nowhere near an expert.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 18, 2018

Part Three : Finally, Blakey reviews the impact of the three pillars and discusses governance, remuneration, corporate social responsibility, reporting, scale, regulation and structure. Jim Collins captured this difference when he talked about level 5 leaders in his book, Good to Great.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Marva Collins showed that children who were previously labeled “learning disabled&# were actually victims of the label they were given by teachers who didn’t know how to teach to them. Collins worked with were predicted to fail, but instead she believed in and discovered their potential. The children that Ms.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I've just finished reading Jim Collins' latest book, Great By Choice (which he co-authored with Morten Hansen). Collins is a smart observer and a gifted writer. It's hard to put down a Collins book feeling anything but.well, inspired. Collins has a knack for asking good questions. Jim Collins, meet Mike Porter.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 21, 2009

Recently I decided to re-read (actually listened to) to the classic business book Good To Great by Jim Collins where he discusses, among other things, the value of people. Collins makes an important distinction with regard to the people in an organization: you need to get the right people.

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QAspire

JUNE 8, 2015

I could see the same contrast/creative tension between “dare” and “serve” that Jim Collins described as “Fierce Resolve” and “Humility” as a trait of Level 5 Leader. Also Read: Other book reviews/author interviews at QAspire. The dynamic tension between daring and serving creates conditions for a superior performance.”.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 26, 2012

In Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras urge business leaders to set what they characterize as BHAGs: Big Hairy Audacious Goals. That is, an “audacious 10-to-30-year goal to progress toward an envisioned future.”

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Reviewing How to Be Exceptional in Canadian HR Reporter Dave writes “ once in a decade, there’s a business book worth reading and remembering … there are many excellent books that simply reiterate things we should already know. ” You can read Dave’s full review at Some books deserve a long life: The next Good to Great?

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Jim Collins described the humility of Level 5 leaders in Good to Great and how it often came as the result of a life threatening event or religious experience. In Lincoln’s Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk, we see how Abraham Lincoln’s suffering from depression throughout his adult life developed humility and determination.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 24, 2012

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster (2012) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” ” That is perhaps what [.].

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The following is from Jim Collins and the book Good to Great : “Early in Smith’s tenure as CEO, a director pulled Smith aside to remind him that he lacked some of the qualifications for the position (he had been corporate counsel and had never run a major division). Darwin was needful in seeking ideas and advice from others.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) A 21st century version of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave In his comments in the “Editor’s Note” section that precedes the Introduction, Warren Bennis acknowledges that he was fascinated (..)

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

” (David Rothacker, Rothacker Reviews). ”We interrupt our coverage of meaningless business books to review a book that made the cut: Six Disciplines for Excellence by Gary Harpst.” ” (Robert Morris, Top 10 Reviewer for Amazon.com). ” (Ethan Johnson, The Vision Thing).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2012

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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