Lead Change Blog

MAY 28, 2021

She introduced me to the Hedgehog Concept from “Good to Great in the Social Sectors,” a supplement to the business book by Jim Collins, comparing the qualities of hedgehogs and foxes. Leadership development became my one big thing. On the contrary, hedgehogs don’t do much chasing.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 21, 2013

Jim Collins said he wanted to write a book about great organizations not great leaders. But as his research grew, he realized great organizations had one thing in common, great leaders. He ended up writing, “Good to Great,” a book about leaders.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The Importance of Leadership Development. Talk to most people about the importance of leadership development and you will likely hear why it’s so important. Studies have proven that leadership development efforts help you: Retain emerging leaders. A servant leader develops other leaders. Jennifer Collins.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 11, 2013

And today’s quotation from business author Jim Collins points in a direction I agree with and that has big implications for us as individuals and as leaders. Intention Leadership Learning Personal Development Quotations Jim Collins meaning' Questions to Ponder - Do I agree with this quotation?

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Engaging Leader

JANUARY 17, 2013

“I’ve heard what thought leaders like Jim Collins and Patrick Lencioni have to say,” Steve asks, “but it just seems like theory when I think about how to apply it to our team. What practical things can we do today to develop our culture?” What practical things can we do today to develop our culture?"

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Jimmy Collins, retired president of Chick-fil-A and author of, Creative Followership, doesn’t wait for people to ask him about lousy bosses. I receive emails and questions after presentations like, “How can I manage up, I have a lousy boss?” He asks them. My conversation with Jimmy rocked my world.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

You want a climate of faith and hope, not fear, in leadership development. As Jim Collins describes in How the Mighty Fall , hubris was at the core. Face the Facts – Whether Bad or Good. An organization had to lay off a third of its workers.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

Rod Collins writes in Wiki Management , “Today’s managers may spend more time soliciting input from their workers, but at the end of the day, the basic social technology remains the same: The managers are still the bosses, the workers are still subordinates, and the latter are still expected to do as they are told.” Management'

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2017

Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins’ Top Ten To-Dos for Young Leaders by @pauljsohn. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. Collaborative Thinking: Do You See Problem Solving as Collaboration? by @KateNasser. Coaches help you find your own answers.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 8, 2014

When Jim Collins set out to write, “Good to Great,” he set out to write about great organizations, not great leaders.… The great ones are both.

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Brigette Hyacinth

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Such managers push employees to grow and develop in order to reach their full potential. ” Developing leadership skills is a lifetime project. James Collins and a research team conducted a five year historical analysis of companies that over time had made a sustained transition from good to great. They invest in people.

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Engaging Leader

JULY 11, 2013

In the landmark book Good to Great , Jim Collins studies what drives average companies to take a quantum leap and become extraordinary. These leaders, whom Collins calls “Level 5,” channel their ego ambition away from themselves into the larger goal of building a great company.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership [link] Stephan De Villiers (LCG, Twitter) wrote an interesting post at Increment Success blog about character-based leadership. He quotes Jim Collins: A Level 5 leader is an individual who blends extremen personal humility and intense professional will.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 25, 2013

In recent days I’m re-listening to Good to Great by Jim Collins. Collins’ definition is simple: “Level 5 leaders blend the paradoxical combination of deep personal humility with intense professional will.” This is, as Collins puts it, a “study in duality.” So can you and I become a Level 5 leader?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Phil Collins – When Peter Gabriel left Genesis in the mid-1970’s, the band auditioned over 400 vocalists before they discovered their drummer already had the voice they needed. Phil Collins asked to be given the mike and a chance. Leadership Development' In looking for true talent, consider the near misses of others.

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Leading with Trust

MAY 6, 2019

One study showed that firms led by a CEO who scored high in humility developed management teams that were more likely to collaborate and make joint decisions, share information openly, and possess a shared vision. So how can we develop humility in our leadership? Viewing yourself as a steward.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Like Jim Collins accomplished in Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t , Peters and Waterman developed a methodology for their study. Learn more at www.elprofile.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

I’ve had issues with some of the concepts contained in Jim Collins book Good To Great since it was first released. Just because an opinion is expressed boldly, and even when data can be developed to support the opinion, opinion doesn’t become fact – it’s still an opinion.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 26, 2021

Maxwell The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni First Break All the Rules – Marcus Buckingham The Leadership Challenge – Jim Kouzes The First 90 Days – Michael Watkins How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie Good to Great – Jim Collins It’s Your Ship – Michael Abrashoff The Speed of Trust – Stephen R.

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Art Petty

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Related Stories Leadership Caffeine™—You Own Smarter, Better, Faster Leadership and Management Book Talk—Exploring Two Books from Jim Collins Think Differently About Professional Development Investments.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Jim Collins: On Leadership In America via @ChiefExecGrp. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. How Positive Images (and negative ones) Shape Your Reality by @JesseLynStoner. Be Better at Spontaneous Speaking via @StanfordBiz. VIDEO: What Successful Entrepreneurs Know via @StanfordBiz.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 7, 2010

Published by Michael Lee Stallard on May 7, 2010 06:26 am under E Pluribus Partners , connection culture , employee engagement , intentional connectors At the Chick-fil-A Leadercast, Jim Collins just pointed out that great leaders in his research had the character strength of humility and those who fall could be described as having hubris.

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Art Petty

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

However, starting with the role and work of leaders and the processes for adding talent to the team and supporting their development are perfect entry points. Teaming, strategy and problem-solving all loom large and merit this treatment.

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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 21, 2013

In Good to Great, Jim Collins explains the best CEOs are not external hires, but brought up through internal development. Do you value operations, maintenance, customer service , engineering, information technology , sales , finance, marketing , accounting – all departments, equally?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

That means less time to think about developing your people. According to Jim Collins, author of “Good To Great,” truly great leaders are ambitious for their organizations, rather than seeking personal celebrity. Unfortunately, diving deep into operational details carries a heavy opportunity cost. Do you give credit to your team?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The iconic Cow “Eat Mor Chikin” campaign developed from an idea by David Ring of The Richards Group. Truett and former company president Jimmy Collins believed, “If I ever have to use position power to influence somebody, I’m probably only going to get to do that once. The Cow Campaign. Stewardship comes into play here too.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 13, 2013

In the book Good to Great, legendary business consultant Jim Collins uncovered what it takes for a company to be great. After five years of colossal research, Collins and his team of researchers found something unexpected. The data overwhelmingly concluded that the greatest companies had what Collins called “Level 5 leadership.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The Power of Pressure : Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution by Dane Jensen (Collins, 2021) What’s the most pressure you’ve ever been under? What has emerged from these conversations is that while everyone’s experiences under pressure are unique, pressure follows patterns and develops in predictable ways. Blog Post ).

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Career Advancement

JULY 30, 2018

Jim Collins~. Onboarding ideally lasts around a year—it’s more a talent development process than an orientation, says SHRM.This process should thoroughly help employees to understand the workplace culture, how they’re evaluated, the tools at their disposal, and how their roles relate to the company’s vision, SHRM adds.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

These are the conclusions I’ve come to after spending most of my life so far either leading others or advising, coaching, developing and observing leaders. It’s a similar dynamic to what Good to Great author Jim Collins describes as Level 5 Leadership – the combination of fierce resolve and deep humility.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Mathilde Collin , CEO of Front , disconnected from technology in order to enjoy her honeymoon. If the goals you set for yourself at the beginning of the year included self-care and making loved ones a priority when you were off the clock, this is a day to keep your promise to yourself.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2020

Choosing to: Deliver Coach Be Consistent Be Honest Be Open Be Humble Evangelize Be Brave Be Kind Awhile back, Blakey kindly answered the following questions about what I read in the book: Question: Of the three pillars – ability, integrity, and benevolence – to becoming a trusted executive, which one do you think is most important to develop?

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Women on Business

APRIL 18, 2011

If you have not yet read “When Everything Changed” by Gail Collins grab a copy and take the journey back to the time when turmoil was front and center on the world stage. As Collins points out, that gave women elevated status yet, precious little room to maneuver. It was not so long ago, the upheaval of the 1960’s.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 25, 2011

Jim Collins, explains how character erodes: These were the people who, in the presence of an opportunity to behave differently, got drawn into it, one step after another. Ralph Waldo Emerson put it well: “The force of character is cumulative.”

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Your year just started and you’re probably already behind on your “you think we’re good now, but soon we’ll be great” BHAG ( thank you, Jim Collins, for introducing the world to Big Hairy Audacious Goals ). You promised yourself and your team that this would be “the year” and now you have to deliver.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 23, 2021

Now, I want to take a question that came in this week from a program that we’re doing leadership development program. I first learned this ring, the bell, I heard it from author Jim Collins, who wrote good to great in many other books, but I was, I heard him speak. Hey, this is Nora and I have a question. Speaker 1: ( 10:42 ).

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Coaching Tip

JULY 21, 2014

and Michael Collins aboard. Earlier American Explorers: Cyrus Durey: Frontiersmen of the Adirondac ks: Economic Development in Early North America (ebook and paperback editions). . . Michael Collins Cyrus Durey Edwin e. Thus the cold war is the primary contextual lens through which many historians now view Kennedy''s speech.

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