Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

If you look at some of the companies with the strongest results and the best reputations, you’ll find that servant leadership is at the heart of them. Also consider how a company in an industry notoriously difficult to make money in, has managed to be wildly successful, where others have failed. So why is it not more common?

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Jim Collins and I studied this question in our book Great by Choice in which we analyzed CEOs and companies that led successfully in such a world. Two management tactics could resolve this: First, junior people ought to be able to pass on information horizontally across units (and not just to their immediate superiors).

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Management Licensing Crisis Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

One of the very first articles in the very first issue of Fast Company , a magazine I started 20 years ago with Alan Webber, is a smart and entertaining list compiled by E.F. Borisch, product manager at a long-established outfit called Milwaukee Gear Company. My friend and Fast Company cofounder Alan Webber puts it well.

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Objective Safe Harbor Collins Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

But at least Obama did manage to make a decision to scale back. In it, MBAs were asked to choose the best R&D investment strategy for a case company; then, they were shown how that strategy played out (disappointingly). They worried that it made Kent and the company look unequal to its challenges.

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COO Collins PR Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

We can see this in companies that were once darlings of Wall Street, but later collapsed. 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." We can do the same with our career choices.

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Kahneman Objective Collins Career 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The same can be said for established companies. Less than three months into the WATTx journey, we had hired a team of 20 amazing people with impressive resumes and personalities across four main domains: data science and software engineering, IoT engineering, digital marketing and sales, and business development. Find your mix.

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Company Benchmarking Storytelling Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. Manage the arduously long sales cycle. Partner with procurement.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2015

His career is marked by consistently helping individuals and teams and his company do better. John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Improvement suggests the late W. This is the theme of my book, Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Jim Collins has a place in this segment, too. Follow John. .

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Leadership Engineering Welch Collins 180

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Posted on August 20th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth My question is this: Is your intellect an asset or liability? M [link] Dan Collins Mike, I have really enjoyed your posts for some time but I must say this has got to be one of the best.

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Blog Engineering Brand Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

We manage numbers because it's easier. We focus on stuff that matters, surely, but we are doing the thing of managing the measurable, rather than the meaningful. Management experts, marketplace results, and thorough research all proves that people are central to what we produce today and how well we can produce results.

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Succession CFO Collins Bottom-up 15