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Finding Your Flywheel

Leading Blog

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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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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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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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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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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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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Do You Speak the Language of Performance Driven Execution?

N2Growth Blog

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. The combination of these six words, derived from Latin, translates into an executable language leaders can use to overcome the challenges in overall organizational performance and development. Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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