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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

However in reflecting upon my presentations and client engagements, I’ve noticed that it’s not an infrequent occurrence to find that even the most savvy executives misconstrue certain basic leadership ideas. Some individuals openly seek out positions of leadership, while leadership is thrust upon others.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

David asked Becky, “How come no one ever talks about love as a leadership competency?&# While l ove and leadership are certainly two words you don’t often hear in the same sentence, I can assure you that rarely does great leadership exist without love being present and practiced. I think it’s a great question.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Michael’s track record of leadership has stood the test of time. Mike Myatt : Has your leadership style changed over the years, and if so, how? Mike Myatt : How has your faith impacted your leadership style? I have learned so much about leadership from reading the Gospels. I took initiative.

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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. He said things like: “Seeking Leadership roles […]. I receive emails and questions after presentations like, “How can I manage up, I have a lousy boss?” He asks them.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Thanks and I hope you enjoy the summit… Share and Enjoy: View Comments pinto philip Topic : Next Generation leadership -> How has leadership evolved with changing times , how has the styles changed , why is servant leadership more relevant in todays world. Sounds like an interesting event and line up.

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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. Just because an opinion is expressed boldly, and even when data can be developed to support the opinion, opinion doesn’t become fact – it’s still an opinion.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: Why is it important to develop future leaders within your company? In his book, Built to Last , Jim Collins describes the very successful succession planning process that GE’s CEO, Reginald Jones, took to find a new CEO. Start Now.

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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.… The great ones are both.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

A CEO’s ability to perform effectively is so closely tied to their ability to form a clearly articulated vision, evangelize the vision and then to execute on their vision, that no real discussion on executive leadership should take place without an emphasis on vision. Vision is often misunderstood.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Fortunately, you don’t have to experience every leadership mistake personally in order to grow your skills. Switching from individual contributor role to a leadership role is stressful. With the right planning and attitude, you can avoid all of these leadership failures. Leadership errors and misjudgments are especially painful.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 25, 2013

In recent days I’m re-listening to Good to Great by Jim Collins. Though I love every part of this book, I’m most impressed with the chapter on Level 5 Leadership. Collins’ definition is simple: “Level 5 leaders blend the paradoxical combination of deep personal humility with intense professional will.”

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 28, 2021

In 2001, I accepted my first official leadership position as a human resources director with one audacious goal – to be and do all the things to serve all the people. Leadership development became my one big thing. These days, I proudly and passionately embrace my leadership hedgehog –- are you doing the same?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

The world we now live in has forced us to reexamine the way we lead people that gained preeminence during the industrial age and our often immature view of leadership—the “I’m in charge” mentality. Authoritarian leadership implies that the smartest, most valuable people are at the top and so the leader commands and the followers do.

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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. Leadership Development' Tom Brady’s heart did not show on the draft board.

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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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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 3, 2012

That’s the nature of our vocation called leadership. But there’s an interesting question that bears some deep thought here: “While all these other things may change, do the fundamental lessons of great leadership remain timeless?”

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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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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

One of the great leadership challenges is making the transition from subject matter expert (SME) to leading teams of SMEs. So you’ll need a more collaborative style of leadership. So you’ll need a more collaborative style of leadership. But now the question becomes, “As I mature in leadership, can I move from ME to WE?”.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 9, 2012

” Jim Collins Weak leaders rely on cannonballs. “Shoot bullets before cannon balls.” Wise leaders shoot bullets first. During difficult times weak leaders look for big solutions, giant leaps, and dramatic success. Wise leaders take small steps before making giant leaps. Shoot bullets: Bullets are miniature cannonballs.

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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. Your service to investors requires that you look for the best successors in leadership roles. Therefore, your organization is best served by looking across the entire company for future leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

We all need to learn from Jack by dropping the politically correct approach to leadership by just doing the right thing. Vijay Govindarajan - Vijay is a Professor of International Business and the Founding Director of Tuck’s Center for Global Leadership at Dartmouth.

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Engaging Leader

JANUARY 17, 2013

“I’ve heard what thought leaders like Jim Collins and Patrick Lencioni have to say,” Steve asks, “but it just seems like theory when I think about how to apply it to our team. What practical things can we do today to develop our culture?” What practical things can we do today to develop our culture?"

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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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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2013

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2013 that you might have missed: From @knowledgwharton Bloomberg''s Peter Grauer: How the ''And Factor'' Defines Leadership. 30 Outdated Leadership Practices Holding Your Company Back by @mikemyatt. 7 Ways To Create A Boring Senior Leadership Team by Tony Morgan. Need to get focused?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

learning » Leadership thinking [.] truth and leadership [.] link] Dan Collins Academics like to debate. link] Dan Collins Buzzwords are definitely not trite. Feel free to share any buzzwords that happen to be pet-peeves… Related Post : The Lost Art of Brevity Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Principal (le?)

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Some leaders who do this fail to develop what is arguably the most important character value: humility. Humility is not easily developed when you have wealth, power and/or status. It’s especially difficult to develop humility without the help of others. Humility develops in several ways. Herein lies the paradox.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 7, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Your Leaders, Hubris or Humility? Collins is right. The Greek historian Heroditus who is referred to as the “father of history&# warned his fellow Athenians of developing hubris in his great work The Persian Wars.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

Movies are a great way to learn about leadership! Here’s CCL’s Clemson Turregano, who has facilitated "leadership at the movies" sessions for years: "I started using movies when I was teaching at West Point and then at the Naval War College," he notes. YouTube provides us with a searchable library of leadership content on any topic.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 18, 2013

This includes finding their talents and helping them develop the skills that make them great. Doing this will allow you to get the right people on the right bus in the right seats (as Jim Collins would say). About the author: Joseph Lalonde is a youth leader at Oak Crest Church of God and leadership blogger at JMLalonde.com.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Posted on August 31st, 2010 by admin in Leadership By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth “Who the * is in charge around here?&# In all but the rarest of circumstances, teams simply don’t function well in the absence of sound leadership.

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Engaging Leader

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Upgrade from Leadership to Impact appeared first on Engaging Leader. In this episode, Jesse traces the development of influence through three stages: Influence 1.0: Leadership Influence 3.0: In this episode, Jesse traces the development of influence through three stages: Influence 1.0: Leadership Influence 3.0:

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? While there is an element of truth in that statement if this is what you aspire to as a leader it constitutes a complete under-utilization of leadership responsibility.

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