Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2014

There is a cost to the system changes along with the personnel adjustments. 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. With new or existing leaders, the organizational culture may need to shift and renew itself. Cost Of New Habits.

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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. So a determined Ms. Certainly, Ms.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But it’s much, much harder for competitors to duplicate a leadership culture and management system producing a continuous stream of successful product and service improvements, innovations, adaptations, and extensions. Stages three and four lean heavily on disciplined management systems and processes.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 15, 2017

As Jim Collins would say, we’ve been “pushing on the flywheel for over 40 years.”. They are the people that make our system run so well. First, let me say that we’ve got a long way to go – Execution is one of three strategic priorities in our 2020 Plan for Operations. One is that we’ve been focused on execution for a long time.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Consulting and coaching organizations to develop systems-of-work that lead to desired behaviors. 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.”

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

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. Working the system isn’t helping promote trust, either. Jennifer Collins. And guess what? Because it’s a fear reaction. Listening is an important skill for building trust.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Is your enterprise actually engaging and making the full use of the collective intelligence embedded in the human system (people, team work, relationships) in your organization? To address critical operational as well as human systems issues, make the best use of the seven practices outlined above. Are you multiplying the E.I.

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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? Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I've just finished reading Jim Collins' latest book, Great By Choice (which he co-authored with Morten Hansen). Collins is a smart observer and a gifted writer. It's hard to put down a Collins book feeling anything but.well, inspired. Collins has a knack for asking good questions. Jim Collins, meet Mike Porter.

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Leading with Trust

MAY 6, 2019

And of course in the classic book, Good to Great , author Jim Collins’ discovered that those organizations who moved from average to superior performance shared a common factor of being led by Level 5 leaders, people who possessed a powerful mixture of humility and indomitable will. Viewing yourself as a steward.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Extraordinary greatness today requires us to adopt the story of the fox and the Hedgehog in Jim Collins’ outstanding book Good to Great. Identification of needed external and internal systems change (Behavioral Intelligences). It reveals specific details in four areas that describe the why, how, what and can of superior performance.

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Leading with Trust

APRIL 19, 2020

He created covert systems of communication among the prisoners and devised a way to share secret intelligence information through handwritten letters to his wife. As recounted by Jim Collins in his book, Good to Great , Stockdale described the importance of balancing reality with resilience.

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Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Chances are you have heard of Jim Collins’ groundbreaking framework, ' A Culture of Discipline.' Include Jim Collins' timeless book Good to Great as well. Following is an excerpt from Jim Collin's 'A Culture of Discipline'. Jim Collins is famous for advocating - "get the right people on the bus" (Good to Great).

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” These disasters have affected popular attitudes toward our entire system of free market capitalism.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The bad news – one piece of the goal setting puzzle many of these systems don’t tackle, or do so inadequately, is the issue of goal size. These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. Target B – This is a big, but potentially believable goal.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

“Six Disciplines differs in that respect – it’s all about teaching a system of getting done the things that we all know need to be done.” “The approach is current and I love that it ties technology and systems with strategy. ” (Robert Morris, Top 10 Reviewer for Amazon.com).

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Then there are those destined to become classics of new knowledge , the way Jim Collin’s 2002 title Good to Great did … Zenger and Folkman published an excellent book the same year as Good to Great called The Extraordinary Leader (click on title for my 2003 review) I have routinely recommended to audiences.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. I find that it's rarely this bolt of lighting epiphany and rather a collective result of thinking systemically about solving a key problem. Vision is often misunderstood.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Forbes and Fast Company credit him for developing Holacracy, a comprehensive management system for governing and running organizations that are fast, agile, and that succeed by pursuing their purpose, free from the tyranny of top-down planning that is instantly out of date.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

” 1 He proposed that the root cause of the lack of quality lies, in part, with our educational system. Much has been learned in the professional world about quality, which could be useful to our educational system. Clore and Allan Collins, The Cognitive Structure of Emotions, Cambridge University Press, 1990, p.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The leader has failed to communicate with those around him of what their system does, its current and future capabilities, and the group or individual's vision for the future. You assume that the person asking the question is always right. But are they? No seldom takes you where you want to go. I always appreciate your perspective Dan.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2012

Some of the following thinking and exercises were inspired by an article called Building Your Company’s Vision , by Collins and Porras, the authors of Built to Last. Alona is the KeyneLink System Administrator for many of CMI’s clients and manages CMI’s Online Marketing including the Company Website, Newsletter, and Social Media.

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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. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). If your blog didn't make the list, please leave a link, description, etc. Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I’m not an MBA.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Jim Collins and I studied this question in our book Great by Choice in which we analyzed CEOs and companies that led successfully in such a world. The system must connect the dots horizontally. The system must be able to handle information overload. How do you lead in a world full of crises, shocks, terror and disruptions?

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

By Jim Collins. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” .” 3. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). ” 10. By John Whitmore.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In our new book Great by Choice , Jim Collins and I pondered that question. He built a system of fanatic discipline to achieve the quest, no matter what. How do you lead successfully in an uncertain, disruptive, even chaotic world? They include the biotech, semiconductor, personal computer, and airline industries. Markets down?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

In his book How the Mighty Fall , Jim Collins explored this phenomenon and found that one of the key reasons for these failures was that companies fell into "the undisciplined pursuit of more." All human systems tilt towards messiness. Curiously, and overstating the point in order to make it, success is a catalyst for failure.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In fact, Jim Collins – best selling business book ever, “Good to Great” – on page 30 in that book, he says, “you know we debated calling these great leaders ‘servant leaders’”, he said. Far and away the largest faith system on planet Earth. Jim : Yeah, it’s really a misunderstood term – servant leadership. Evidence!”. billion with a B.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In fact, Jim Collins – best selling business book ever, “Good to Great” – on page 30 in that book, he says, “you know we debated calling these great leaders ‘servant leaders’”, he said. Far and away the largest faith system on planet Earth. Jim : Yeah, it’s really a misunderstood term – servant leadership. Evidence!”. billion with a B.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

The company's performance measurement and incentive systems, and the degree to which risk management is considered, will also have a profound impact on employee behavior. Maine Senator Susan Collins countered by pointing out that (1.) it was not one group of individuals that engaged in misconduct but rather several smaller groups; (3.)

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Out of the 17 US Companies selected by Jim Collins in his book Built to Last studied, ten are headquartered in small towns. What's more, the system isn't encouraging them to spread. Microsoft, the biggest of them all by market cap, is based in Redmond, a city of 50,000 people and 16 km to the east of Seattle. It's the same in Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

I just tell them, 'Please make something great,'" says Liam Collins, who oversees the Los Angeles facility, told the paper. "We The goal is creating healthier and more vibrant innovation eco-systems — ones where suppliers feel clients are genuinely interested in making them better and stronger. They provide the talent.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

It’s an approach that has paid huge dividends for networking giant Cisco Systems. “We stopped posting like we were a 70K+ person company, and…started posting like we were 70K+ people working for the company,” explained Carmen Collins, who runs social media for Cisco’s talent brand.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

link] Dan Collins Mike, I would particularly like someone to address the popularity of "politically correct" leadership. Thank you for restoring trust in the system. Let me expand. Would Churchill, Patton or their ilk have flourished in leadership today? We must weak up to reality and show the good comportment.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

This became very problematic in scale-up mode: every time I changed my mind it impacted hundreds of employees and typically involved retooling lots of processes and systems. Second, the leader needs to know whom to pick up and whom to leave at the bus stop along the way, a concept the management writer Jim Collins made famous.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 7, 2011

Once the 300,000 applications (apps) are available through Google’s Android system for the PlayBook , it will be even more useful. RIM has been losing market share in the smart phone market to Apple and sellers of Google’s Android system. It seamlessly runs multiple programs at once.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Ane Ohm, CEO of HarQen , a startup supplier of automated recruiting systems in Milwaukee, and her staff held over 100 patience-sapping meetings with a Fortune 500 customer before getting a first contract. This was the situation facing Collins Consulting , a Chicago area provider of contingent staffing services.

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