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020: How to Develop an Effective Culture

Engaging Leader

“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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How to Succeed with a Lousy Boss

Leadership Freak

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

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Aim Higher: Servant Leaders Develop Other Leaders

Skip Prichard

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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LeadershipNow 140: April 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

How to Stop Procrastinating and Manage Your Scarcest Resource by @JesseLynStoner. Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins’ Top Ten To-Dos for Young Leaders by @pauljsohn. How to Create Psychological Safety on Your Team via @leadchangegroup. by @SteveTobak. 4 Things to Let Go Of from @wallybock.

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How To Be A Trusted Executive

Eric Jacobson

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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045: How Conscious Leaders Build Value | with Fred Kofman

Engaging Leader

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. Resources Mentioned in This Episode. Twitter: @fredkofman.

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

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. Buried within the text, Peters and Waterman offer the bottom line of how to identify excellence in companies. Perhaps not.

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