CO2

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Here is Collin Powell’s 13 Rules of Leadership. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. About the Author As President and Co-founder of ACI Telecentrics, Inc.,

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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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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. Capitalism is under scrutiny today as to whether it’s the right system for the country to operate under.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 11, 2017

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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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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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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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

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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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. 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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Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

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. Going ‘Jim Collins’ By the time my travels took me back to Billings, a couple of months later, I knew what I had to do.

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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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When Truitt “selected people to work at Chick-fil-A or to become restaurant Operators, he sought people he knew could do the job, and then he trusted them to do it. Truett and former company president Jimmy Collins believed, “If I ever have to use position power to influence somebody, I’m probably only going to get to do that once.

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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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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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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. ” Sinek, Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. ” James C.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 13, 2020

These leaders operate from core values of partnership and participation. Jim Collins’ Good to Great research determined, “half of the companies we were studying didn’t do it (layoffs) once. Words like, “our people are our most important resource” now prove to be empty rhetoric or compassionate reality.

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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 8, 2013

"My Meetings With Mandela" "Thinking Mistakes Our Brains Make Every Day and How to Prevent Them" ''Tis the Season to Focus on the Business Basics Adam Bryant Alison Gopnik Angie Hicks “How I Hire: In Search of the Sir Ernest Shackleton Gene” “The Psychology of Self-Control” Belle Beth Cooper Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/2/13) (..)

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Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

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. It provides direction and boundaries for the team to operate and channels their energy toward their goals. A team charter functions like banks for a river.

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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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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Operating environments change rapidly. For the drill press operator (who should be voting on the kind of tool to use) to vote on whether to declare a stock split would be equally foolish. We’re near the end of our series on the definition of Servant Leadership through the acronym SERVANT. The second-to-last principle is Needful.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Extraordinary greatness today requires us to adopt the story of the fox and the Hedgehog in Jim Collins’ outstanding book Good to Great. Design the campaign plan with compressed timeframes (Parallel Operations). Achieve Flawless Execution: Operation Arizona – the Mop-up: Plan-Brief-Execute-Debrief (Grand Strategy).

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Leading with Trust

APRIL 19, 2020

Your organization probably champions that “people are their most valuable asset” or that you operate with “integrity, trust, ethics” or something to that effect. As recounted by Jim Collins in his book, Good to Great , Stockdale described the importance of balancing reality with resilience. Well, do you?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

link] Dan Collins Academics like to debate. link] Dan Collins Buzzwords are definitely not trite. As you pointed out in your comment toning down the serious nature of discourse can also lighten the mood and be more effective in doing so. Thanks for sharng Sami. The best argument in the world will always lose to a two by four.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

By Jim Collins. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. .” 3. By Daniel H.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

link] Dan Collins Mike, I would particularly like someone to address the popularity of "politically correct" leadership. Jonathan Heng Hi Mike- Consider these topics: - Legacies of Leadership – How the impact of effective leadership inspires the organization to a higher standard (ie. Let me expand.

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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? Thanks for the post, Larry Bruce (@pcmguy) [link] Dan Collins Not bad Mikey – nothing could add to that one. Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

This means people feel “safe” offering different opinions, ideas, suggestions and, as outlined in the research and findings in Jim Collins’ book Good to Great, engaging in “vigorous intellectual debate.” To address critical operational as well as human systems issues, make the best use of the seven practices outlined above.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

Jim Collins did a good job of addressing this as have you in prior posts. Mission Share and Enjoy: View Comments Oarabile Thats a gud advice Mike and keep the good work up and empower you generation Mark Oakes Good post, Mike Ah… the 'Vision' Thing … the underpinning of great things to come.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

link] Dan Collins Mike, This is a very, very important post. The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue. In some circles a lack of empathy is defined as having sociopathic tendencies Thanks for sharing Lori… [link] mikemyatt Hi Deb: Agreed…true strength is born out of love. Mike Henry Sr.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

link] Dan Collins Mike, Thanks for this. " I recently read Jim Collins' book "How the Mighty Fall" and recognized myself and some of my friends and colleagues in his research. Thanks for stopping by Linda. Thank You Sir.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 24, 2016

Good to Great by Jim Collins Jim has written many research-backed leadership audiobooks. Gerber Many of us go into entrpreneurship as a great technician, thinking that we can run our own business and easily reap the profits our boss does but often don't realize what the different skill set that it takes to run the operations of a business.

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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. There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. Jim was animated, passionate, informative and lucid.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] 2 Tweets Who’s In Charge? N2Growth Blog By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Who the * is in charge around here?

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