Lead Change Blog

JULY 27, 2020

President Franklin Roosevelt is credited with saying a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. In the words of Good to Great author Jim Collins, every institution has to wrestle with a vexing question: What should change and what should never change? Values are core beliefs that define what the organizations stand for.

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Brigette Hyacinth

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

” 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. Such managers push employees to grow and develop in order to reach their full potential.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Fortunately, you don’t have to experience every leadership mistake personally in order to grow your skills. There are plenty of new habits to build and new skills to learn. I have seen this failure happen with highly skilled technical professionals. When we made errors in judgement, it’s important to learn from that experience.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 13, 2014

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 have any other areas that are critical to building GREAT leadership skills? Good To Great. The post Why Your Good Leadership Isn’t Great.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 23, 2020

In his book Good to Great , Jim Collins popularized the concept of the “Stockdale Paradox.” In the spirit of “never letting a good crisis go to waste,” use this time to hone your skills as a trustworthy leader. Resilient leaders balance optimism with a sobering dose of reality.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 11, 2017

These skills are different in many ways than skills needed in the past. I love what Jim Collins, author of Good to Great said: “Good leaders are like tofu: clearly part of the meal, perhaps even the main source of nutrition, but the spice is provided by everyone around them.”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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. Consider the timelessness of these key qualities: Eight Characteristics of Excellent Companies.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Marva Collins is an educator who believed that the disadvantaged children she taught were capable of more than they – and the traditional school system – thought. Collins tweaked the delivery of conventional education and started a low cost private school using her techniques. Collins’ students had the desire to learn.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

New people with the necessary skills and abilities may be needed to navigate or recover from the changes. Jim Collins , author of Built to Last , notes only 71 companies on the original 1955 Fortune 500 list were still there when the book was written. However, experiential change can carry a very high cost. Cost Of New Team Members.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 18, 2013

Your team will find purpose and meaning when they begin putting their skills to work. This includes finding their talents and helping them develop the skills that make them great. Your employees’hobbies will frequently revolve around their skills abilities. The place where they really shine. Try these three tips: 1.

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CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

From a Harper Collins review: Truly successful people don’t merely tolerate discomfort—they embrace it and seek it out again and again. I enjoyed that section because it rightly pointed out the success Linda has had despite being a woman and the daughter of the founder. I know Frank (the father) well and am also friends with Linda.

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Career Advancement

JULY 30, 2018

Jim Collins~. He wanted to groom his high-performing employees for success , growing their leadership skills. “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.”. But how do I know I’m not just priming them for a job with some other company?

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 24, 2013

magazine’s June 2012 issue features a compelling article about author and leadership expert Jim Collins , who has studied leadership for 25 years and penned four best-selling books. Two of the most powerful takeaways from the article for me are Collin’s definition of a great company : “To be great, a company has to make a distinctive impact.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 24, 2020

During this current COVID-19 crisis, I am watching leaders at all levels of our organization step up and show extraordinary leadership skills, patience, kindness and humanity. In a crisis, I focus on what I need to get my team what they need.” – Jennifer Collins. . Communicate in multiple ways and listen to what people need.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2020

In my experience working as an executive coach with over 120 CEO's across 22 different countries, the benevolent skills of care, kindness and moral bravery are the most under-developed in the typical corporate leader. Jim Collins captured this difference when he talked about level 5 leaders in his book, Good to Great.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. 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? Blog Post ). How did you react?

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 8, 2011

Building a great team around you is one of those leadership skills that can make or break you. It’s one thing to get all the “right people on the bus&# (to steal a Jim Collins phrase), but it’s quite another to get the team to create an unstoppable collective force that can achieve greatness.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2015

Jim Collins. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious–but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.” – Jim Collins. —Publilius Syrus. “We Napoleon Bonaparte. John Maxwell.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 13, 2020

Jim Collins’ Good to Great research determined, “half of the companies we were studying didn’t do it (layoffs) once. Identifying and removing underperforming supervisors and managers, especially those with weak people leadership skills. The other half, with the exception of one case, only ever did it once or twice.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 11, 2011

All kidding aside, I believe good leaders are just people who have mastered basic leadership skills. Of course, mastering these skills takes effort and motivation. Learning from others who have successfully gone before – people like Jim Collins, Bill George and Patrick Lencioni – can save you time and frustration.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 27, 2010

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 have any other areas that are critical to building GREAT leadership skills? Good To Great.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

From his good to great research, Jim Collins found humility is a hallmark of the very best leaders. The challenge is often helping them understand that soft skills have become an even more critical priority. They often see humility as weakness.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

We cannot control much of what happens around us, but the choices we make, as Jim Collins and Morten Hansen’s research confirms, determine our success. Mountain climber “Malcom Daly had to be lucky enough to survive the fall, but he also had to be strong, skilled, and resilient before the 44 hours of peril after his two-hundred-foot fall.”

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 17, 2012

Author and leadership expert Jim Collins defines Level 5 leaders as those who: Pursue goals with the ferocity of lions while displaying the humility of lambs. According to Collins, who has studied leadership for 25 years, this level of leader is a rare breed.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Something magical happens when a skilled veteran successfully re-learns his rookie smarts and is still able to retain his veteran acumen," explains Wiseman. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Harper Collins Publishers Leadership Books Liz Wiseman Rookie Smarts' She contends that we do our best work when we are new to something.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

And it’s rewarding for you, because you can learn new styles of leadership from someone whose skills and ideas will usually be different from yours—which isn’t just “OK,” but fantastic! Jennifer Collins. Learn to learn from your team as you go through the process. Fundamental to leadership is creating other leaders.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Listening is an important skill for building trust.” Jennifer Collins. It promotes better listening skills, because to trust someone, you have to understand their point of view. In between simply trying to survive, your best people will be looking for new opportunities and only those who can “work the system” will stick around.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

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). It was time. I needed to loosen the reins, and hand more responsibility over to leaders who were in the field every day.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The first two stages depend on people or leadership skills. 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. Controlled chaos is a tricky process with four main stages.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Author and leadership expert Jim Collins defines Level 5 leaders as those who: Pursue goals with the ferocity of lions while displaying the humility of lambs. According to Collins, who has studied leadership for 25 years, this level of leader is a rare breed.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t by Jim Collins. If you want to go beyond simple job descriptions and policies, these top books will help you develop skills that can be invaluable to your profession. . Streets, Lindsay McFarlane, and Rachael Johnson-Murray .

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 18, 2018

In my experience working as an executive coach with over 120 CEO's across 22 different countries, the benevolent skills of care, kindness and moral bravery are the most under-developed in the typical corporate leader. Jim Collins captured this difference when he talked about level 5 leaders in his book, Good to Great.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 21, 2009

Their skills, knowledge, intellect, character and integrity provide the primary value to their company. 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.

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Nathan Magnuson

MAY 16, 2016

Good to Great by Jim Collins. Leadership skills don’t really matter without a passion behind them. Another timeless classic, Stephen Covey ‘s 7 Habits is a true work of thought leadership built on the premise of personal responsibility. But it’s anything but simple. This book should have a category all it’s own.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 26, 2013

If you haven't read, Good To Great by Jim Collins, do so. The five years of research that Collins and a team conducted to prep for the book consisted of examining 1,435 U.S., Near the top of virtually every list you'll see of the best leadership books, you'll find Good To Great. The book focuses on 11 good-to-great companies.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

” –Jim Collins, Good to Great. “Hire for attitude and train for skills.” “An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.” ” — Tom Peters.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 8, 2012

Good to Great , Jim Collins, Harper Business, New York, 2001, pages 12-14. ” - Jim Collins and Morten Hansen, Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck — Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy — these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will.

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