Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Creative Followership : In the Shadow of Greatness by Jimmy Collins with Michael Cooley. Leadership Transformed : How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders by Peter Fuda. Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August. Breakthrough by David C.M. For bulk orders call 1-800-423-8273.

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Books Collins Library Leadership 275

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. Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses the right question in his blog Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

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Heskett Collins Uncertainty Short-term 45

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Then there are those destined to become classics of new knowledge , the way Jim Collin’s 2002 title Good to Great did … Zenger and Folkman published an excellent book the same year as Good to Great called The Extraordinary Leader (click on title for my 2003 review) I have routinely recommended to audiences. Christmas is coming.

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Books Collins How To Leadership 53

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

The paper, published in the European Management Journal, isn’t the first to look at the values firms list on their websites; a 2013 paper tried something similar but found no correlation with performance. The upshot from the researchers’ paper, published earlier this year: don’t dismiss the corporate values statement.

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Company Collins Short-term Agility 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Management Advice from Jeff Bezos. The biggest surprise after studying the Amazon letters to shareholders written by Jeff Bezos is how much management advice he provides. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter).

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Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85