First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 27, 2013

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Kaplan 80

Kaplan Collins Committee Wilde 80

Steve Farber

MARCH 8, 2009

Will he be my GTY Project? That Project will be coupled with Making a GTY Project for my son Adam (who works with us) and for Stephanie, a partner and a leader. He called it the engine that leads to great “extreme&# or “radical&# leadership.

Project 40

Project Real Estate Collins Engineering 40

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The people I am working with often quote Jim Collins Good-to-Great : “…leaders of companies that go from good to great start not with “where” but with “who.” In other words: Like Collins in Good-to-Great, getting the right people on the bus in the right seat is important. This does not have to change anything, immediately.

Organization 121

Organization Collins Team Micromanagement 121

RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 13, 2017

But being able to say no when necessary to protect priorities and keep projects on track is the path to respect. As Jim Collins says in Good to Great , to give credit, leaders look out the window; to assign blame, they look in the mirror. Collins Click To Tweet. . – Tony Blair Click To Tweet. Leader Isolation – The Takeaway.

Collins 203

Collins Mentor Open-book Hedge 203

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Bret Simmons is involved on a new research project. Jim Collins on 3 ways to demotivate followers. Every friday we review the posts from LeaderLab contributors that has appeared on this blog and elsewhere online. We hope you’ll help him out by taking a simple survey on work life. Our review of Scared Cows Make the Best Burgers.

Collins 87

Collins Survey Review Project 87

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Based on the input of everyone involved, you can document “lessons learned” following a major new product, service, or project. The best new products, services, or methods often come from the wrong people, at the wrong time, in the wrong way, for all the wrong reasons. This is a key component of organizational learning.

Innovation 59

Innovation Agility Strategic Planning Core Competence 59

Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

Stay tuned for more news and tidbits about this book project. Going ‘Jim Collins’ By the time my travels took me back to Billings, a couple of months later, I knew what I had to do. The source of going “Jim Collins” (and a great book). Getting Past The Pinnacle. It was time. And there was one more thing.

Collins 150

Collins Leadership Operations Travel 150

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 23, 2019

Jim Collins finds that a laser focus and disciplined priority setting is a critical factor separating great organizations from good ones. A culture of fear is a major reason senior leaders can get so stupidly off track with their plans and projects.

Organization 49

Organization Team Leadership Collins 49

The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

As with Collins’ first book, Built to Last , and with Good to Great (read my review of both books on LinkedIn or The Leader Letter archive ), they compared the outstanding companies to a control group of comparison companies in the very same industries and extreme environments that failed to thrive. Sounding familiar?

Uncertainty 81

Uncertainty Collins Review Books 81

Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 2, 2015

Whether it’s helping to complete an Individual Development Plan , evaluating a past project or designating development dollars in the department budget, every little bit counts. In his book Creative Followership , Jimmy Collins recounts the realization of his own limitations as a self-employed individual. Help Us Develop.

Collins 120

Collins Bureaucracy eBook Consultative 120

Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

” –Jim Collins, Good to Great. . “First get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then they can figure out where to drive it.” “Hire for attitude and train for skills.” ” — Tom Peters. ” –David Oglivy.

Covey 127

Covey Welch Long-term Collins 127

CO2

JANUARY 31, 2014

Which ones are genuinely your own, and which are others’ projections and expectations that you accepted as your own? When looking for a company’s purpose, Jim Collins asks, “What can the organization be the world’s best at?” Just where do your beliefs start and others’ stop?

Gilbert 145

Gilbert Executive Coaching Collins Mentor 145

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 26, 2012

The clearest and most helpful guide to this question comes from the extensive empirical research of Jim Collins and his research team. Collins and co-author Morton Hansen summarized their findings in Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All.

Heskett 45

Heskett Collins Uncertainty Short-term 45

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

To this day I’m amazed at how many CEOs still own tasks, roles, projects, and responsibilities that should be delegated to others. link] Dan Collins Mike, Your posts and insights are truly very high value. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

CEO 306

CEO Blog Delegation Covey 306

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Wrote The Happiness Project & Happier at Home (both New York Times bestsellers). 2 49,800 32,900 1,911 Jim Collins Business, Leadership Words of wisdom from Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, Built to Last, and Great by Choice. Project Manager at @courtinnovation. Chief evangelist of Canva. https://www.canva.com/.

Leadership 100

Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The most important decision a leader can make with regard to any implementation, initiative, project, objective, goal, task, etc. One of the reasons I think some organizations end up charging sub-par leaders with mission critical objectives is that leaders of projects are all too often chosen based on position in their hierarchy.

Bottom-up 320

Bottom-up Blog Objective Brand 320

N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity? Extraordinary greatness today requires us to adopt the story of the fox and the Hedgehog in Jim Collins’ outstanding book Good to Great. Isn’t that what productivity should be doing?

Execution 305

Execution Objective Learning-by-Doing Innovation 305

The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 26, 2016

BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” For this year’s projects, goals, decisions or initiatives, have you asked yourself … Is this the right timing? Let’s dig in! 7 Leadership Questions That Will Move The Needle in 2016. QUESTION 1: What is your BHAG?

BHAG 100

BHAG Leadership Goal Motivation 100

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 6, 2010

These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. To be more specific, for each goal, consider setting a range of targets like this: Target A – This is a perfect world scenario, I/we absolutely want it goal. Target B – This is a big, but potentially believable goal.

Goal 184

Goal Workshop BHAG Learning-by-Doing 184

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 21, 2011

You’ll hear from leadership authorities including Andy Stanley, Jim Collins, Francis Chan, David Platt, Priscilla Shirer, Mark Driscoll, Dave Ramsey and Judah Smith, along with several innovative thinkers and practitioners like Princeton professor Dr. Cornel West , TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie , Global Soap Project founder Derreck Kayongo , Hillsong (..)

Conference 33

Conference FOB Collins Price 33

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

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). Q&A with Rick Lindquist, President and CEO of Zane Benefits, Inc. It’s a simple concept.

CEO 50

CEO Books Insurance BHAG 50

Chris Brady

JANUARY 18, 2011

Makes further work more attractive and minimizes 'project dread' I have witnessed leaders who understood the power of fun injected it into situations at just the right time. Therefore, as author and researcher Jim Collins put it, the best leaders will make sure their people are "in the correct seats on the bus."

Travel 119

Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 119

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

We’ve discovered that using a version of Jim Collins’s “hedgehog” idea , from Good to Great , helps clients think it through. Collins found that great organizations focus on three things: what will drive their economic engine, what they can be best in the world at, and what they are most passionate about.

Skills 8

Skills Collins How To Learning-by-Doing 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

in the comments below… [link] Dan Collins Mike, I believe leadership is pretty simple – not easy, not common, but simple. But I have been doing people and project management for years. And project management is applying common sense to get things done from common people. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems).

Blog 394

Blog Leadership Follow-up Media 394

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

There, they would talk shop and decisions were made that excluded others — about who to hire, promote, and assign to important projects. When there are employees from diverse backgrounds at an event, go out of your way to introduce women and people of color to important stakeholders, says Collins. ” 7.

Management 11

Management Diversity Collins Committee 11

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

Dick Clark Productions had a select list of projects. ” Judy Collins (1968). Long-term business success is a function of developing stakeholders and empowering them to do positive things with your company. The take-back for business is to grow in consistent fashion, sustaining the down times with realistic activities.

Mentor 90

Mentor Case Study Strategic Planning Learning-by-Doing 90

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He was on the creative planning team for catalyst, works with leadership development of Chick-Fil-A, and is quarterbacking many projects for well known leaders. link] Dan Collins Mike, Leaders inspire us by their example. He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy).

Blog 295

Blog Covey Learning-by-Doing Video 295

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

At Acme, Beth should have a threat of real failure — a salary cut, getting fired, stopping the project, having to fire or reallocate her team. What’s the minimum you can do to deploy the project? It should have failed months ago but hasn’t.” ” This often happens inside enterprise companies.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Tips 8

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

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. Members of the team are given responsibility for a particular metric (either standalone or one part of a larger project).

Letter 85

Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

In the next round they were asked what to do next: Should they switch R&D projects in midstream, or pour more money into the original strategy? Her perceptive interpretation of this behavior was that, while an action that prevents problems goes mostly unnoticed, pulling a flailing project from the fire garners plenty of attention and rewards.

COO 15

COO Collins PR Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In our new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and I studied the role of luck in explaining corporate success. Your project derails because of someone else's error, a competitor unexpectedly blows you away with a better product, the new CEO downplays your product area, a medical condition derails your plans.

Management 14

Management Collins Tactics Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

Jim Collins has created a long-lasting enterprise supported by the sale of books and media, as well as fees for consulting, speaking engagements, and workshops. Al Gore created the Climate Reality Project Leadership Corps to bring his ideas about environmental sustainability to people around the world.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Career Merchandising COO 10

Management Excellence

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

In preparation for an upcoming presentation, I’ve become a bit obsessed with studying the 1910 expeditions and race between Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott to 90-degrees South (the South Pole). The lessons for leaders and managers practically leap off the pages of this classic example of coping with risk, uncertainty and volatility.

Uncertainty 111

Uncertainty Leadership Examples Management 111

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great. He projected convincing self-confidence, authenticity, and wisdom. Yet the attribute of humility seems to be neglected in leadership development programs.

Development 10

Development Self-aware Press Release Collins 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

More than 190 member countries committed to “eliminate poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030, together with 16 other “big, hairy, audacious goals” — to use Jim Collins’ memorable phrase. billion impressions on Twitter and Instagram and was the top trending topic in the U.S. during the assembly.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 2, 2011

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Welch 80

Welch Collins Project Creativity 80

The Empowered Buisness

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Both of these visions are sadly bland and generic that they could have been thought of by high school students as a homework exercise for their economics project. As best selling author, Jim Collins, notes: There is a big difference between being an organization with a vision statement and being a truly visionary company.

Leadership 113

Leadership Long-term Short-term Mission Statement 113