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AUGUST 1, 2013

Creative Followership : In the Shadow of Greatness by Jimmy Collins with Michael Cooley. Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August. Breakthrough by David C.M. Carter The Chaos Imperative : How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success by Ori Brafman and Judah Pollack.

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Books Collins Library Leadership 272

Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 6, 2014

Image via Creative Commons. Smith – I finished this book near the end of 2013 and was blown away by the insights Robert D. Good To Great by Jim Collins – The recent classic business book is a must read for anyone looking to grow their organization. R eading is key to staying ahead of the curve as a leader.

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Books Collins Library Learning-by-Doing 227

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem Robert Kaplan and Robert Kaiser Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Actually, what we should fear are complacency and self-satisfaction as well as the assumption that “just good enough” really is. As I began to read this book, I was reminded of the title of […].

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Kaplan Greenleaf Collins Books 85

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 26, 2012

‘Tis the season for futurists, forecasters, and analysts to line up with seers, fortune tellers, and prophets to earnestly foretell what 2013 has in store for us. The clearest and most helpful guide to this question comes from the extensive empirical research of Jim Collins and his research team.

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Heskett Collins Uncertainty Short-term 45

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). It is based on chapter 8 of Jim Collins book Good to Great. Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept. Encourage Successful Failure (Principle 1).

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Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 88