N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

link] Dan Collins Mike, Thanks for this. " Perhaps if the culture is both diverse and inclusive and management's actions are not based on "being like us," showing articles of faith is not a problem. Humble, authentic leaders who really understand their craft are equally scarce. Thanks for stopping by Linda.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

That said, it is nonetheless safe to say that CEOs who find a way to focus their efforts on values, vision, mission, strategy, team building, innovation, networking, and branding will be the CEOs who achieve the highest and most sustainable levels of success. link] Dan Collins Mike, Your posts and insights are truly very high value.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Related Post: Keeping it Simple Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Collins Excellent – Simple, Scalable and Succinct Advice.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. Eroarea lui NU in management:[link] [.] I couldn’t disagree more…In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on what I refer to as the fallacy of no.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Ultimately I see struggles on both secular and spiritual fronts regarding managers and subordinate leaders executing the vision and plans set forth by upper level leaders. I make sure that I am totally prepared to take responsibility for failures of those I manage and serve. 2 Tweets Who’s In Charge?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

link] Dan Collins Mike, This is a very, very important post. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2017

How to Stop Procrastinating and Manage Your Scarcest Resource by @JesseLynStoner. Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins: Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker. Jim Collins’ Top Ten To-Dos for Young Leaders by @pauljsohn. 9 Ways a Leader Can Earn Trust by@SusanMazza. by @KateNasser.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 6, 2012

A fantastic case for a better management perspective, mainly that little things like progress can affect big things like profitability. Perhaps the most under-rated book on evidence-based management. Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen. Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen. Adapt by Tim Harford.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Jim Collins described the humility of Level 5 leaders in Good to Great and how it often came as the result of a life threatening event or religious experience. In Lincoln’s Melancholy by Joshua Wolf Shenk, we see how Abraham Lincoln’s suffering from depression throughout his adult life developed humility and determination.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Keep in mind that your credibility as a leader depends greatly on your actions: your interaction with your family, friends, and co-workers; your way of managing your personal and organizational responsibilities; and even the way you talk with a casual acquaintance in the elevator. link] Dan Collins Thanks Mike. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place? Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers. Focus on value creation.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. 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. It became required reading in business school classes.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

You can find and read more about this lesson, and its backing by facts and history, in one of my all-time favorite business books, “ Good to Great ” by Jim Collins. Collins noted that in every instance, the leaders of the great companies demonstrated these two traits. What’s so earth shatteringly wonderful about this?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Best wishes Scott… [link] Dan Collins Mike, Excellent post. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. I haven't read the book yet, but when I do I'll share my feedback with readers. Reading transports us to a place beyond ourselves.

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Art Petty

JUNE 3, 2020

Art Petty and Wally Bock talk about some of the later books in Jim Collins' Good to Great Series: How the Mighty Fall and Great by Choice. The post Leadership and Management Book Talk—Exploring Two Books from Jim Collins appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The people I am working with often quote Jim Collins Good-to-Great : “…leaders of companies that go from good to great start not with “where” but with “who.” Much of the confusion and frustration comes from having too many layers of management in the organization. Matching the Manager-Employee Capacity. Just Right? What to do?

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. By Jim Collins. First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999). Listed in no particular order. By Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 21, 2009

Recently I decided to re-read (actually listened to) to the classic business book Good To Great by Jim Collins where he discusses, among other things, the value of people. Collins makes an important distinction with regard to the people in an organization: you need to get the right people.

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Management Excellence

JUNE 3, 2020

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 8, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind Jocelyn Glei, Editor Innovating Analytics: Word of Mouth Index- Use the Next Generation of Net Promoter to Increase Sales and Drive Results […].

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 10, 2011

:c) RT @ ellenfweber TN Tanveer U Rock # We Is Bigger Than Me [link] # leadership #innovation # How to develop a culture of innovation on @ SmartBrief # Leadership blog (via @ SBLeaders ) [link] # innovation # Thank you, Angela! RT @ HireBetter : @ tanveernaseer Takes Another Look at Leadership & Change [link] Good read!

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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. Stages three and four lean heavily on disciplined management systems and processes.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Our unit was famous for innovation and forward-thinking practices. They get a good blend of Hersey-Blanchard’s Situational Leadership, Kotter’s Change Management, Kouzes-Posner’s Five Leadership Practices, Collins’ Level Five and many more.” He was a great leader and I would follow CPT Jack Hamilton to the end of the earth.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

You may have the best materials, the newest innovations, the most creative product –but those resources are meaningless without the core of your business: your employees. “In technology it’s about the people: getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.”

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Human Resource Management (HRM) is a broad term that encompasses human resources management, employee relations , compensation, benefits, training, performance evaluation, recruitment, selection, and other related activities. Human resource management (HRM) has always been a challenging field. Let’s begin.

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Art Petty

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The post For Strategy Work, It Pays to Learn and Use the Right Tools appeared first on Management Excellence by Art Petty.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2012

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Their research emphasizes the role of perceived integrity among top managers and highlights the strong correlation between an organization’s culture and its success (Guiso et al., I wrote how the challenge was not the lack of core values but the “paternalistic and confusing messages sent by senior management.”

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Management Excellence

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

The lessons for leaders and managers practically leap off the pages of this classic example of coping with risk, uncertainty and volatility. In preparation for an upcoming presentation, I’ve become a bit obsessed with studying the 1910 expeditions and race between Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott to 90-degrees South (the South Pole).

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Human Resource Management (HRM) is a broad term that encompasses human resources management, employee relations , compensation, benefits, training, performance evaluation, recruitment, selection, and other related activities. Human resource management (HRM) has always been a challenging field. Let’s begin.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Everyone wants to be innovative but no one wants to make a mistake.". The rock: the new imperative for innovation that has over taken the corporation in the last few years. Senior managers frown on anything that won't pan out. In a phrase: innovation is getting more urgent but risk is getting riskier. She seemed stressed.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Forbes and Fast Company credit him for developing Holacracy, a comprehensive management system for governing and running organizations that are fast, agile, and that succeed by pursuing their purpose, free from the tyranny of top-down planning that is instantly out of date.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. I just tell them, 'Please make something great,'" says Liam Collins, who oversees the Los Angeles facility, told the paper. "We We provide the space, equipment and expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In all the tributes to Steve Jobs, what people recall is not these numbers, of course, but the innovations, the man himself, and what he stood for. The question on the minds of most managers around the world is, well, how did he do this (and can we learn some of those things)? Hid did it all.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Lafley - The former Chairman and CEO of Proctor & Gamble gave a clinic on innovation. I’ve never heard anyone speak so fluently on the topic of innovation. A recognized expert on strategy and innovation he is also the author of seven books. Just about every statement that passed his lips was quotable.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

The organizations I admire don't just lead their industries in terms of innovation or financial performance or market share. As Jim Collins, the great management guru, has argued, "The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. Is this company a leader in creating leaders up and down its ranks?

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