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 29, 2021

In his best-selling classic business book, “Good to Great,” author Jim Collins explains that it’s natural for ambitious leaders to have a healthy ego. Collins advises leaders to “channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company.”.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Collins is the author of my all-time favorite business book, “ Good to Great &# ( affiliate link, profits to National Park Foundation) , where through a ton of research he identified the most critical traits of companies that were able to sustain above-average growth rates for long periods of time. EVERY instance. Popularity: 3% [ ?

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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. Given the legions of those who have drunk the Good to Great Kool-Aid, I realize today’s post might be akin to spitting into the wind. That said, it is nonetheless my hope to burst a few bubbles and bust a few myths.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Jim Collins likens it to turning a giant, heavy flywheel. In Turning the Flywheel , Collins shares practical insights and clarity about the process. Collins lists seven essential steps to finding and capturing your flywheel. Collins explains the flywheels of Amazon, Vanguard, Intel, Giro Sport Design and others.

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 30, 2012

For example, in the landmark work “ Good to Great ” Jim Collins explained his team almost used the term “Servant Leader” instead of “Level 5 Leader” but feared it would be misinterpreted. Jim Collins was afraid people would have false preconceived notions.

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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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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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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 29, 2012

As Jim Collins, author of Good To Great, states, these incremental decisions build momentum. It may be the most important thing they do. It’s not necessarily one individual decision that is important. It’s the cumulative effect of decisions that build momentum, or destroy it. They create the flywheel effect, one small nudge [.].

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 8, 2012

” Jim Collins & Morten T. Posted in Resources Self Leadership “They didn’t define themselves by money, fame or power. They defined themselves by impact and contribution and purpose.” Hansen, Great by Choice. Is ambition bad? Wikipedia defines ambition as simply, “the desire for personal achievement.”

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

These include selections from Collins Thesaurus of the English Language, and WordNet 3.0.) Merriam-Webster defines instigate as to goad or urge forward: provoke. The Free Dictionary ads to stir up; foment. Synonyms include incite, stimulate, inspire, induce, start, encourage, influence. Here in the Lead Change Group, we talk [.].

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 3, 2013

On May 1, 2013 a man named Wally Collins passed away. Posted in Self Leadership [link] Have you ever been touched deeply by someone you barely knew? A few short years ago I sang at his wedding as he married one of the people I hold most dear, Mary McClean. They shared a brief, but beautiful love. It was moving [.].

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

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

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 11, 2013

And today’s quotation from business author Jim Collins points in a direction I agree with and that has big implications for us as individuals and as leaders. Intention Leadership Learning Personal Development Quotations Jim Collins meaning' Questions to Ponder - Do I agree with this quotation?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This approach was first popularized in the 1980′s by Jack Welch at GE and further reinforced in 2001 by Jim Collins who told us to “get the right people on the bus and the wrong people off.” Leadership Jack Welch Jim Collins stack ranking talent development' → Read More: Forget the Bus! The post Forget the Bus!

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 1, 2023

There, Fin runs into April’s boyfriend, Collin (Christopher Wolfe). Fin fills April, Claudia, and Collin in on what’s happening. Collin goes to the window to check out if it is true. This was Collin’s mistake. A shark crashed through the window and began to eat Collin.

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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. Author Book Notes Influence Leading Personal Growth Chick-fil-A Growth Jimmy Collins Leadership Development lousy bosses organizational success Truett Cathy' He asks them.

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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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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.… Some leaders are humble. Others are driven. The great ones are both.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Creative Followership : In the Shadow of Greatness by Jimmy Collins with Michael Cooley. Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August. Breakthrough by David C.M. Carter The Chaos Imperative : How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success by Ori Brafman and Judah Pollack.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Great by Choice : Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen. The 5 Levels of Leadership : Proven Steps to Maximize Your Potential by John C, Maxwell. Practical Genius : The Real Smarts You Need to Get Your Talents and Passions Working for You by Gina A Rudan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

According to Jim Collins, author of “Good To Great,” truly great leaders are ambitious for their organizations, rather than seeking personal celebrity. Do you give credit to your team? Do you write thank you notes regularly? Privately, how often do you think about your annual bonus versus the organization’s growth goals?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 28, 2021

She introduced me to the Hedgehog Concept from “Good to Great in the Social Sectors,” a supplement to the business book by Jim Collins, comparing the qualities of hedgehogs and foxes. The standing joke with my boss was that I was really good at something , we just needed to figure out what it was.

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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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Engaging Leader

JULY 11, 2013

In the landmark book Good to Great , Jim Collins studies what drives average companies to take a quantum leap and become extraordinary. These leaders, whom Collins calls “Level 5,” channel their ego ambition away from themselves into the larger goal of building a great company.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 2, 2012

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. Because they didn’t DO it.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 25, 2011

Jim Collins, explains how character erodes: These were the people who, in the presence of an opportunity to behave differently, got drawn into it, one step after another. Ralph Waldo Emerson put it well: “The force of character is cumulative.”

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Conversely, when things go well, the praise is always on them (Think Jim Collins and his concept of the Level 5 leader in his book “Good to Great”). The blame is never on the team – it’s on the leader.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 20, 2011

Once a target is set in a business, for most leaders it’s a natural tendency to jump right into the business of hitting it – in other words, massing the effort and “push&# needed to achieve what Jim Collins ( “Good to Great&# ) called the “ Flywheel Effect “ I’ve always liked the flywheel analogy, because it’s (..)

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Good to Great – by Jim Collins. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team – by Patrick Lencioni. Questions of Character – by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. Radical Leap – by Steve Farber. The Lean Startup – by Eric Ries.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 13, 2013

In the book Good to Great, legendary business consultant Jim Collins uncovered what it takes for a company to be great. After five years of colossal research, Collins and his team of researchers found something unexpected. The data overwhelmingly concluded that the greatest companies had what Collins called “Level 5 leadership.”

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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. Good To Great. It chronicles how they made the leap, what they did, and what they didn’t do.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 8, 2011

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. Building a great team around you is one of those leadership skills that can make or break you.

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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 21, 2013

In Good to Great, Jim Collins explains the best CEOs are not external hires, but brought up through internal development. Do you value operations, maintenance, customer service , engineering, information technology , sales , finance, marketing , accounting – all departments, equally?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 27, 2020

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? Vision is the future state picture an organization strives to create and results from what do we do (mission), why do we do it (purpose), and how we fulfill our mission (strategy).

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Jim Collins “One little thing doesn’t make a difference. “Big things happen because you do a bunch of little things supremely well that compound over time.” But ten little things do make a… Continue reading →

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

As Jim Collins describes in How the Mighty Fall , hubris was at the core. An organization had to lay off a third of its workers. For months senior leaders dismissed warning signs and data from employees about severe problems and had ignored market trends for years.

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