CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

“Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it’- Marva Collins Categories: About The Book Daily Guest Post FTC Notice – conflicts of interest Latest Articles Motivational Business Quotations Time Leadership Audio CD Your days seem to get busier and longer.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 21, 2013

Jim Collins said he wanted to write a book about great organizations not great leaders. But as his research grew, he realized great organizations had one thing in common, great leaders. He ended up writing, “Good to Great,” a book about leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

Share success and rewards, remind others of their great contribution, and give reasonable control to others. As Jim Collins describes in How the Mighty Fall , hubris was at the core. There was an inability to see the truth because of self-obsession with past success and personal blind spots. It’s so demotivating!

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Jimmy Collins, retired president of Chick-fil-A and author of, Creative Followership, doesn’t wait for people to ask him about lousy bosses. I receive emails and questions after presentations like, “How can I manage up, I have a lousy boss?” He asks them. My conversation with Jimmy rocked my world.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Here is Collin Powell’s 13 Rules of Leadership. About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc.,

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 27, 2020

Notwithstanding occasional nausea, what is it that contributes to interpreting rough waters as an invitation to experience new levels of success? 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? Strategic Resilience.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Earlier this year brought Jim Collin’s monograph to his iconic bestseller, Good to Great book. Titled, Turning the Flywheel , Collins explains why some companies build momentum and some don’t. It must capture the sequence that ignites and accelerates momentum.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 8, 2014

When Jim Collins set out to write, “Good to Great,” he set out to write about great organizations, not great leaders.…

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

Rod Collins writes in Wiki Management , “Today’s managers may spend more time soliciting input from their workers, but at the end of the day, the basic social technology remains the same: The managers are still the bosses, the workers are still subordinates, and the latter are still expected to do as they are told.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2017

Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins’ Top Ten To-Dos for Young Leaders by @pauljsohn. One Temptation Most Successful Executives Resist by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders. Collaborative Thinking: Do You See Problem Solving as Collaboration? by @KateNasser. Coaches help you find your own answers.

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Brigette Hyacinth

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

And how you treat them, is literally the difference between success and failure. The greater your success, the more you need to stay in touch with fresh and diverse opinions and perspectives, and welcome honest feedback. Succession planning was a problem. Leaders who cultivate other leaders multiply their own success.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Creative Followership : In the Shadow of Greatness by Jimmy Collins with Michael Cooley. Carter The Chaos Imperative : How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success by Ori Brafman and Judah Pollack. Breakthrough by David C.M.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 25, 2013

In recent days I’m re-listening to Good to Great by Jim Collins. Collins’ definition is simple: “Level 5 leaders blend the paradoxical combination of deep personal humility with intense professional will.” This is, as Collins puts it, a “study in duality.” So can you and I become a Level 5 leader?

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In this landmark work , Jim Collins and his research team state a key component of turning a Good company into a Great company is “Level 5 Leadership” The team chose the term, “Level 5 Leadership” over Servant Leadership, in part, for fear readers would misinterpret the concept as “servitude” or “weakness.”

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 13, 2013

The kind of pride that prevents them from experiencing lasting success. Their pride causes them to blame others (or their circumstances) for their lack of success. But successful people know that doing the crazy thing—even if that means being humble enough to drop everything and begin again—is a winning formula for success.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership [link] Stephan De Villiers (LCG, Twitter) wrote an interesting post at Increment Success blog about character-based leadership. He quotes Jim Collins: A Level 5 leader is an individual who blends extremen personal humility and intense professional will.

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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.” It will not only lead your team through this crisis, it will set them up for long-term success in the future. Resilient leaders balance optimism with a sobering dose of reality.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 24, 2019

Earlier this year brought Jim Collin’s monograph to his iconic bestseller, Good to Great book. Titled, Turning the Flywheel , Collins explains why some companies build momentum and some don’t. It must capture the sequence that ignites and accelerates momentum.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 25, 2015

There are plenty of books dealing with exemplar, successful, “great,” “excellent” companies. For example, Jim Collins described Circuit City as one of the exemplar, “great” companies in his book Good to Great, not very long before Circuit City disappeared from our landscape. Some of those companies have already fallen from the list.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

February 26 brings Jim Collin’s monograph to his iconic bestseller, Good to Great book. Titled, Turning the Flywheel , Collins explains why some companies build momentum and some don’t. Key to creating your flywheel says Collins is that it not be conceived as merely a list of static objectives that you’ve simply drawn as a circle.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Your year just started and you’re probably already behind on your “you think we’re good now, but soon we’ll be great” BHAG ( thank you, Jim Collins, for introducing the world to Big Hairy Audacious Goals ). Your Twitter feed is full of success stories. So, what’s the secret?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Phil Collins – When Peter Gabriel left Genesis in the mid-1970’s, the band auditioned over 400 vocalists before they discovered their drummer already had the voice they needed. Phil Collins asked to be given the mike and a chance. These factors reduce our potential pool dramatically. Disney kept doodling.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Three Critical Ingredients of the Successful Manager's Foundation by @artpetty. VIDEO: What Successful Entrepreneurs Know via @StanfordBiz. Jim Collins: On Leadership In America via @ChiefExecGrp. What’s Your Learning Style? by Kay Peterson via @leadchangegroup. How Should Leaders Address Challenge Of Low Performers?

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Art Petty

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Choosing the right tools for strategy work in today's environment is critical for a successful process. Related Stories Leadership Caffeine™—You Own Smarter, Better, Faster Leadership and Management Book Talk—Exploring Two Books from Jim Collins Think Differently About Professional Development Investments.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2015

People Over Profit : Break the System, Live with Purpose, Be More Successful by Dale Partridge. Team of Teams : New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal with Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell. The Hard Hat : 21 Ways to Be a Great Teammate by Jon Gordon.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 11, 2012

Former US Secretary of State Collin Powell summed it up nicely when he said; “Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty and persistence.”. Achieving success requires a continuation of effort. It’s the continuation of successes that becomes the success.

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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. Create a Succession Plan (and Communicate It). If your high-performing employees don’t know your succession plan (or if you need to create one), they’re probably thinking about other career moves they can make.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

I’ve had issues with some of the concepts contained in Jim Collins book Good To Great since it was first released. Fortune 500 companies are mature, well branded, well capitalized, already successful companies. That said, it is nonetheless my hope to burst a few bubbles and bust a few myths.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 26, 2021

Maxwell The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni First Break All the Rules – Marcus Buckingham The Leadership Challenge – Jim Kouzes The First 90 Days – Michael Watkins How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie Good to Great – Jim Collins It’s Your Ship – Michael Abrashoff The Speed of Trust – Stephen R.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 2, 2012

Success is a beautiful thing. Yes, my good man Jim Collins figured it all out in my favorite business book of all time, Good to Great. Collins calls them “Level 5 Leaders” – they’ve taken leadership up another very important notch. And it was researched, and documented, many times over.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 22, 2015

We seem to live and die by the progress and success […]. President Barack Obama, on his last appearance on The Daily Show ——————– This is worth pondering.

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Art Petty

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We've barely scratched the surface of the areas in our organizations where thinking differently is essential for survival and success. Teaming, strategy and problem-solving all loom large and merit this treatment. The post Thinking Differently About What It Means to Lead appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 4, 2021

We cover a lot of ground in 30 minutes, with tips on how you can create successful delegation situations and really set yourself up for success. For new leaders, delegation can be a trust issue.” – Jennifer Collins. Good delegation requires you to change your definition of success.” – Tammi Spayde.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ambition is one of the defining qualities of successful leaders. According to Jim Collins, author of “Good To Great,” truly great leaders are ambitious for their organizations, rather than seeking personal celebrity. Often, that will mean suggesting they seek help from a more experienced team member. Do you give credit to your team?

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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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

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? Flux helps readers open this mindset—a flux mindset—and develop eight “flux superpowers” that flip conventional ideas about leadership, success, and well-being on their heads.

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CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

She told a number of stories of people who had suffered great adversity (like paralysis, blindness etc) and had still managed to become great successes in life. I enjoyed that section because it rightly pointed out the success Linda has had despite being a woman and the daughter of the founder. It will also make us happier.

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