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Collin Powell's 13 Rules of Leadership

CO2

Here is Collin Powell’s 13 Rules of Leadership. 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. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Innovation and organization learning often falls into the same trap as strategic planning, economic forecasting, and change management. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. There is no orderly path that can be mapped out and budgeted.

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What Can Hedgehogs Teach Us About Strategy?

LDRLB

However, Hughes and Beatty (2005) assert that true strategy must begin and stay focused on strategic thinking, not planning. Hughes and Beatty borrow this concept from Collins’ (2001) Hedgehog Concept, which itself is borrowed from a poem by Isaiah Berlin. Collins, J. Good to great. New York, NY: HarperBusiness.

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Jim Collins, Meet Michael Porter

Harvard Business Review

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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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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Do You Speak the Language of Performance Driven Execution?

N2Growth Blog

Extraordinary greatness today requires us to adopt the story of the fox and the Hedgehog in Jim Collins’ outstanding book Good to Great. It simply means a significant change in your thought processes allowing you to be radically different from the norms.

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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

The Empowered Buisness

BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” The best definition that I seen is that a BHAG is a statement of strategic intent. Unconscious, unchallenged (and often erroneous) assumptions driving your goals and strategic plan. Let’s dig in!

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