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Leaders don’t create more followers. They create more leaders.

Brigette Hyacinth

He made such an impact and influenced my leadership style. ” 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. You are only strong as your weakest link.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

It is based on chapter 8 of Jim Collins book Good to Great. Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept. The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel. Understand Your Flywheel (Principle 6).

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Who's In Charge?

N2Growth Blog

The most important decision a leader can make with regard to any implementation, initiative, project, objective, goal, task, etc. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] I've been around long enough to see all types of leadership styles both succeed and fail.

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Q&A With Millennial CEO And Book Author Rick Lindquist

Eric Jacobson

Which of your leadership skills helped you most to rise through the ranks at Zane Benefits? Lindquist : Professional will, which is defined in Jim Collins’ famous book, Good to Great. That gave us roughly four months to get the project done and edited (while also running a fast growing software company). It’s a simple concept.

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