Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 4, 2017

But in a National Operations role, I also had responsibility for ‘fleet’–yup, the trucks.” Yes, it starts with what Jim Collins calls “ Getting the right people on the bus. I was confident in those arenas and showed up strong. I’ve got people for that.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 20, 2022

“First and foremost, purpose is about the strategic decisions and the operations of the firm. Collins and Jerry Porras, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. Leadership is an affair of the heart, not of the head.” ” James C.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

I’d been at my leadership role for 6 years. We had worked hard to get our operations in order and build a great team. The fact was, I was getting more comfortable with being more detached from the day-to-day operating decisions. The source of going “Jim Collins” (and a great book). It was time.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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. Hands-on, value-driven leadership. Capitalism is under scrutiny today as to whether it’s the right system for the country to operate under.

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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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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 21, 2013

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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CEO Servant Leader Collins Engineering 238

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 15, 2017

First, let me say that we’ve got a long way to go – Execution is one of three strategic priorities in our 2020 Plan for Operations. As Jim Collins would say, we’ve been “pushing on the flywheel for over 40 years.”. For us, virtually everything rises and falls on the point leader in each restaurant – we call them the Operator.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 11, 2017

The nature of leadership is changing rapidly. As we work with leaders at all levels, I’ve seen firsthand that many of them are operating without a clear understanding of the critical competencies needed to succeed. These skills are different in many ways than skills needed in the past.

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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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Influence Blog Leadership Video 359

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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Leading with Trust

APRIL 19, 2020

However, I’d like to suggest that taking a little bit of time to think about the legacy you want to leave as a leader would be helpful in directing your leadership behavior today. Use these four questions to evaluate your leadership in recent weeks: Am I walking the talk? Don’t leave your leadership legacy to chance.

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Leadership Self-aware Collins Letter 116

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. While I agree with many of his suppositions on what makes a great leader, I vehemently disagree that only one leadership style can work effectively.

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Collins Leadership Styles Books Restructuring 371

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

We were not a Christian business,” writes Robinson, “but rather a business where the owners and leadership aspired to apply and live out biblical principles.” These six principles, based on Truett Cathy’s leadership, have guided every decision at Chick-fil-A and help to keep it uniquely different. Six Legacy Principles.

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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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Blog Leadership CEO Brand 379

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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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein B(Big Hairy Audacious Goal) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Center for Creative Leadership Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem Forceful and Enabling Leadership James O''Toole Jim Collins Lao Tzu make everything as simple as possible but no simpler Marshall Goldsmith Robert Greenleaf (..)

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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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The Practical Leader

JUNE 23, 2021

airline in The Wall Street Journal’s annual ranking for 2020 based on key operational performance metrics. In his decades of research studying what differentiates great companies, Jim Collins has featured the company’s long track record of investment returns way beyond other companies — in their industry and most others.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 13, 2020

These leaders operate from core values of partnership and participation. We can look back to those experiences for leadership lessons on navigating through the financial crisis many companies now face. Jim Collins’ Good to Great research determined, “half of the companies we were studying didn’t do it (layoffs) once.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Background: This post is part of a series defining the principles of Servant Leadership via the acronym SERVANT ( Selfless , Empathetic , Resolute , Virtuous , Authentic , Needful and Thorough). For more, visit the overview at this link or sign up for the free online course, Servant Leadership 101. The only constant is change.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 30, 2013

Here are a few quotes to whet your appetite: “Good is the enemy of Great.” –Jim Collins. Product management focuses on releasing the right products to the right markets at the right time; set both financial and operational goals for your product line. Don’t confuse motion with progress.” –Peter Drucker.

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Management Collins Drucker Short-term 211

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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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

But to the surprise of most leaders today, increasing overall performance has become a complex, and in some cases, a Bermuda Triangle-like mysterious process that continues to baffle even the smartest people in the field of leadership and change. Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Growing up playing sports, coaching my kids’ sports teams, and being a sports fan in general has taught me numerous lessons about life and leadership. As Jim Collins, the author of Good to Great points out, it’s not just about getting the right people on the bus, but getting the right people in the right seats on the bus.

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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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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2011

We cannot control much of what happens around us, but the choices we make, as Jim Collins and Morten Hansen’s research confirms, determine our success. For their study, the authors chose a set of major companies that achieved spectacular results over 15 or more years while operating in unstable environments. 10X Leadership Behaviors.

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Contingency Plans Collins Creativity Airlines 284

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

What great leadership does is to use presence (demeanor an modeling), practices and processes to multiply E.I., The answers will sound simple yet applying the insights to multiply effective intelligence will take all three forms of critical leadership capacity: guts, heart and head. of your team, your department and your organization?

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Organization Teamwork Learning-by-Doing System 158

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 24, 2016

Top 26 Can't Miss Leadership Audiobooks ​These best 26 leadership audiobooks will help you kick leadership butt, becoming the leader that your family and friends always knew you can be. Enjoy these top leadership audiobooks! Good to Great by Jim Collins Jim has written many research-backed leadership audiobooks.

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Blanchard Drucker Leadership Greenleaf 41

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The moral of the story is this…A lack of delegation creates operational bottlenecks, delegation confused with abdication creates organization chaos, and effective delegation of authority vs. tasks creates personal and operational excellence. link] Dan Collins Mike, Your posts and insights are truly very high value.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. By Jim Collins. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I've just finished reading Jim Collins' latest book, Great By Choice (which he co-authored with Morten Hansen). Collins is a smart observer and a gifted writer. It's hard to put down a Collins book feeling anything but.well, inspired. Collins has a knack for asking good questions. Jim Collins, meet Mike Porter.

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Porter Collins Competitive Advantage Strategy 15

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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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? Which hat, or hats do you wear? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it? Priority number two is team building and talent management.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Marva Collins showed that children who were previously labeled “learning disabled&# were actually victims of the label they were given by teachers who didn’t know how to teach to them. Collins worked with were predicted to fail, but instead she believed in and discovered their potential. The children that Ms.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I have live video above, and in the text that follows I’ll share my opinions on the best and the worst of WBF Day 1… Jim Collins kicked-off the day with everything you would expect from him. Never confuse power with leadership. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric.

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