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Finding Your Flywheel

Leading Blog

Jim Collins likens it to turning a giant, heavy flywheel. In Turning the Flywheel , Collins shares practical insights and clarity about the process. Collins lists seven essential steps to finding and capturing your flywheel. Collins explains the flywheels of Amazon, Vanguard, Intel, Giro Sport Design and others.

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Why Your Good Leadership Isn’t Great.

Rich Gee Group

An incredible book by Jim Collins — relates how certain companies overcame their obstacles and pushed themselves from being just good companies to the stars of their industry. Do you feel that you stayed true to your ethics and that your decision grew you as a leader in your organization? Good To Great. What was the result?

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GUTSY Is As GUTSY Does

Women on Business

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. While women could not wear slacks outside the home, they had their place on the pedestal of morality and ethical behavior.

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4 Ways To End Destructive Pride

Tanveer Naseer

On the other hand, have you ever had a coworker who had an amazing work ethic? 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.

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From Words to Worth: Navigating the True North of Organizational Values

Mike Cardus

The true measure of an organization’s culture is not found in its mission statement but in the employees’ perceptions of top management’s trustworthiness and ethical behavior (Guiso et al., Citing Jim Collins, “First, you cannot ‘set’ organizational values; you can only discover them.”

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Your Leaders, Hubris or Humility?

Michael Lee Stallard

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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Has SAS's Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code On Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

During the Leadercast program and prior to my meeting with Goodnight, author Jim Collins interviewed him on stage. Collins seemed to be looking for something similar in Goodnight to explain SAS’s benevolent corporate culture where the average work week is 35 hours and the bucolic SAS campus has nearly every employee perk imaginable.

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