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Moving from Expert to Executive: Changes Great Leaders Learn to Make

Lead Change Blog

You want a climate of faith and hope, not fear, in leadership development. As Jim Collins describes in How the Mighty Fall , hubris was at the core. As a strategic leader, you cannot operate in the smaller space that defined you as an expert. Face the Facts – Whether Bad or Good. It could have been a much different story.

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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. Capitalism is under scrutiny today as to whether it’s the right system for the country to operate under.

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The Biggest Mistake NEW Leaders Make

Let's Grow Leaders

Unfortunately, diving deep into operational details carries a heavy opportunity cost. That means less time to think about developing your people. 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?

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Could Your Next CEO Come from Any Department?

Modern Servant Leader

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

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Our Stewardship Responsibility

Leading Blog

The iconic Cow “Eat Mor Chikin” campaign developed from an idea by David Ring of The Richards Group. When Truitt “selected people to work at Chick-fil-A or to become restaurant Operators, he sought people he knew could do the job, and then he trusted them to do it. The Cow Campaign. Stewardship comes into play here too.

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Rethinking Good To Great

N2Growth Blog

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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4 Ways To End Destructive Pride

Tanveer Naseer

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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