Lead Change Blog
MARCH 20, 2014
Guest Post by Jess Millis There are quite a few rules and tips that Jim Collins has churned out in his time, and where there may be students essay writing on them all right now, here is a short article on just a few of them. Author information Jon Mertz Jon is a vice president of marketing in the healthcare software industry.
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. But when theories are marketed as fact, I begin to lose patience rather quickly. Given the legions of those who have drunk the Good to Great Kool-Aid, I realize today’s post might be akin to spitting into the wind.
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Lead Change Blog
MAY 28, 2021
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. 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.
Lead on Purpose
MAY 25, 2013
In recent days I’m re-listening to Good to Great by Jim Collins. Collins’ definition is simple: “Level 5 leaders blend the paradoxical combination of deep personal humility with intense professional will.” This is, as Collins puts it, a “study in duality.” So can you and I become a Level 5 leader?
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.
Lead Change Blog
APRIL 19, 2021
For months senior leaders dismissed warning signs and data from employees about severe problems and had ignored market trends for years. As Jim Collins describes in How the Mighty Fall , hubris was at the core. An organization had to lay off a third of its workers.
Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 23, 2014
Our markets and competitive situations never hold still. Jim Collins , author of Built to Last , notes only 71 companies on the original 1955 Fortune 500 list were still there when the book was written. Change is a necessity. Team members don’t sit still. Adapting keeps us growing in what we do and how we do it.
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