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Ways to Boost Innovation and Accelerate Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. These four innovation stages aren’t neat and orderly. These four innovation stages aren’t neat and orderly.

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The Two Qualities that Make Leaders Great

Leadership Freak

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

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The 5 Disciplines of Wiki Management

Leading Blog

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.” Management'

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2017 Compilation

Leading Blog

Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins’ Top Ten To-Dos for Young Leaders by @pauljsohn. If You Want To Innovate, Avoid These Myths by Greg Satell @Digitaltonto. Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. by @KateNasser. Coaches help you find your own answers.

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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

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. Ongoing innovation with new products, services, and processes through autonomy and entrepreneurship. A customer-first focus in all decisions.

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Your Leaders, Hubris or Humility?

Michael Lee Stallard

Published by Michael Lee Stallard on May 7, 2010 06:26 am under E Pluribus Partners , connection culture , employee engagement , intentional connectors At the Chick-fil-A Leadercast, Jim Collins just pointed out that great leaders in his research had the character strength of humility and those who fall could be described as having hubris.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

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? What has emerged from these conversations is that while everyone’s experiences under pressure are unique, pressure follows patterns and develops in predictable ways. Blog Post ).

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