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Your Leadership Operating System: Ego Or Eco?

Lead Change Blog

In his best-selling classic business book, “Good to Great,” author Jim Collins explains that it’s natural for ambitious leaders to have a healthy ego. Collins advises leaders to “channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company.”. The post Your Leadership Operating System: Ego Or Eco?

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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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Strategic Resilience

Lead Change Blog

Strategic Resilience is the practice of thinking forward while leading through present turbulence – adapting to difficult operating circumstances while looking beyond current conditions to keep focused on the horizon. The context for Strategic Resilience is dynamic fluidity in the operating environment.

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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. 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. That said, it is nonetheless my hope to burst a few bubbles and bust a few myths.

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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. According to Jim Collins, author of “Good To Great,” truly great leaders are ambitious for their organizations, rather than seeking personal celebrity. I have seen this failure happen with highly skilled technical professionals.

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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

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. An organization had to lay off a third of its workers. There was an inability to see the truth because of self-obsession with past success and personal blind spots.

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