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Discover Your Hedgehog (Part 5)

CO2

He took Jim Collins’ Venn diagram for the Hedgehog Concept for business success and applied it to an individual’s career search. Collins’ diagram has three circles: “What are you deeply passionate about?” ” “What drives your economic engine?” Discover Your Hedgehog (Part 5).

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Related Post: Keeping it Simple Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Collins Excellent – Simple, Scalable and Succinct Advice. When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Thanks for the post, Larry Bruce (@pcmguy) [link] Dan Collins Not bad Mikey – nothing could add to that one. I encourage u and other investors to work make the founder understand their role and way it’s important for them to play it. link] Mike Myatt Thanks Dan…Have a great weekend Sir.

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Q&A With Millennial CEO And Book Author Rick Lindquist

Eric Jacobson

Lindquist : Professional will, which is defined in Jim Collins’ famous book, Good to Great. In order to attract, develop and retain the best people (especially with respect to Millennials) in today’s job world, you must have a plan to advance your workers’ career opportunities during their time with you. It’s a simple concept.

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Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

in the comments below… [link] Dan Collins Mike, I believe leadership is pretty simple – not easy, not common, but simple. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). If your blog didn't make the list, please leave a link, description, etc. Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I’m not an MBA.

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The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Harvard Business Review

In his book How the Mighty Fall , Jim Collins explored this phenomenon and found that one of the key reasons for these failures was that companies fell into "the undisciplined pursuit of more." It is true for companies and it is true for careers. We can do the same with our career choices. His success had distracted him.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

He was down the road in a new career a couple years later. In fact, Jim Collins – best selling business book ever, “Good to Great” – on page 30 in that book, he says, “you know we debated calling these great leaders ‘servant leaders’”, he said. I’ve seen it my whole career. So they no, they actually terminated him.