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Aim Higher: How to Create a Performance Culture

Skip Prichard

Are you trying to expand your market share or cut costs? To get to a performance culture, ask: how are you ensuring that you are aligned?” – Jennifer Collins. The post Aim Higher: How to Create a Performance Culture first appeared on Skip Prichard | Leadership Insights. Are you in a growth year? Think about it.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

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? How did you react? Drawing on principles from business and behavioral economics, the book shows readers from all walks of life how to provoke action as a mechanism to advance.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/2/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind Jocelyn Glei, Editor Innovating Analytics: Word of Mouth Index- Use the Next Generation of Net Promoter to Increase Sales and Drive Results […].

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5 Simple Ways Good Leaders Become Great

Lead from Within

In Good to Great, Jim Collins writes, “Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. Very few understand why or how to prevent it. How to Succeed as A New Leader.

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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. It chronicles how they made the leap, what they did, and what they didn’t do. Next post: How To Present Yourself Like A Professional.

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The Best Leadership Book Of 2021

Eric Jacobson

That is what this book is all about – applying those lessons learned to provide clear direction on how to be the very best leader and communicator you can possibly be.” They could read a spread with one of our proven methodologies to know how to better communicate change or learn “8 steps to active listening.”

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The right people

Lead on Purpose

Recently I decided to re-read (actually listened to) to the classic business book Good To Great by Jim Collins where he discusses, among other things, the value of people. Collins makes an important distinction with regard to the people in an organization: you need to get the right people. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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