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. With a background in public relations, marketing, and internal communications, HR had become an accidental specialty – I was a jack-of-all-trades and master of none.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

general management, human resources, supply chain, you name it — that I have heard about through our recruiters or by word of mouth. In the end, getting the right people on the bus, as Jim Collins puts it , is probably the most important thing a top manager can do. So I began a practice I've kept up to this day.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 22, 2011

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. The succession planning process should start with you, your organization’s leader, and your talent management or human resources department.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Kyle Simmons* split his time between his infantry unit and its human resources department. Owen Collins* is the director of the English department of a small New England college, where he also teaches. Make any accusations ­— instead ask the person questions to try to figure out why it happened.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

2 49,800 32,900 1,911 Jim Collins Business, Leadership Words of wisdom from Jim Collins, author of Good to Great, Built to Last, and Great by Choice. I write, teach and consult across the world on human resource strategy. Called to encourage and equip leaders around the world. Be Irresistible.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

But anyway after college I started working in Detroit at a steel fabricating place and I worked in human resource, they called it personnel management back then and I spent a couple of years doing that before I got into labor relations and then I opened a consulting firm and started working with some messed up companies.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

But anyway after college I started working in Detroit at a steel fabricating place and I worked in human resource, they called it personnel management back then and I spent a couple of years doing that before I got into labor relations and then I opened a consulting firm and started working with some messed up companies.

Leadership 100

Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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