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Book Review – “Good to Great” by Jim Collins - 2nd Installment
This is a reprint of an article I wrote for my newsletter. I read it again and feel the same. Even in light of our current economic challenges…
Enjoy…
As mentioned in our last installment, “Good to Great” by Jim Collins is one of the finest reads in the modern business literature genre. It is based on a meticulous and statistically comprehensive comparison of “good” versus “GREAT” companies. Great companies are defined as having “sustained, market-beating” financial performance. After the great versus good companies were selected, Collins and his research team dug deeply into factors separating the great financial performance from the good. Read the rest of this entry »
Book Review – “Good to Great” by Jim Collins - 1st Installment
This is a reprint of an article I wrote for my newsletter. I read it again and feel the same. Even in light of our current economic challenges…
Enjoy…
Jim Collins is one of the most respected teachers and authors in modern business management press. He has written two books that have the business world literally abuzz with excitement. The first book, “Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies” was originally written in 1997. Followed by “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…While Other Don’t”, written in 2001 interestingly as a “prequel” to “Built to Last”. Read the rest of this entry »
Is “Good to Great” by Jim Collins any Good?
In 2001 Jim Collins wrote a book title “Good to Great”, which became a sensation in the business management world. According to Wikipedia, the book has sold 2.5 million copies and has been translated into 32 languages. Wow! Everyone was reading it, commenting on it, giving it to their business associates, and claiming to be intending to read it very soon. Read the rest of this entry »
An Frighteningly Funny Look at Communications…
The Colonel’s Order
Even if you have never been in the military, you are going to appreciate this…
A COLONEL ISSUED THE FOLLOWING DIRECTIVE TO HIS EXECUTIVE OFFICERS:
“Tomorrow evening at approximately 2000 hours Halley’s Comet will be visible in this area; an event which occurs only every 75 years. Have the men fall out in the battalion area in fatigues, and I will explain this rare phenomenon to them. In case of rain, we will not be able to see anything, so assemble the men in the theater and I will show them films of it.”
EXECUTIVE OFFICER TO COMPANY COMMANDER:
“By order of the Colonel, tomorrow at 2000 hours, Halley’s Comet will appear above the battalion area. If it rains, fall the men out in fatigues, then march to the theater where this rare phenomenon will take place, something which occurs only once every 75 years.”
COMPANY COMMANDER TO LIEUTENANT:
“By order of the Colonel be in fatigues at 2000 hours tomorrow evening. The phenomenal Halley’s Comet will appear in the theater. In case of rain in the battalion area, the Colonel will give another order, something which occurs once every 75 years.”
LIEUTENANT TO SERGEANT:
“Tomorrow at 2000 hours, the Colonel will appear in the theater with Halley’s comet, something which happens every 75 years. If it rains, the Colonel will order the comet into the battalion area.”
SERGEANT TO SQUAD:
“When it rains tomorrow at 2000 hours, the phenomenal 75-year-old General Halley, accompanied by the Colonel, will drive his comet through the battalion area theater in fatigues.”
Leading for Better Group Meeting Outcomes
Leaders can have a substantial impact on the decision making processes in group meetings that will lead to effective decisions and result in positive outcomes for the team and the organization.
The question is how…
What Does Leadership Mean in this Economy?
I Just Finished a Course on Leadership and Change – Here are my thoughts on the subject in retrospect…
I was really looking forward to this class and I was not disappointed. I have strongly held convictions on what leadership means and what it doesn’t. It is my opinion that “leadership” as a term is not only difficult to define but that it is also served poorly by the very organizations that need it so desperately. As a case in point, one has to look no further than the economic mess that our country is in the middle of at this time.
I will preface these comments with my conviction that the nature of free-market economies requires corrections – however difficult – as a part of their natural course. However, economics and its vagaries are not isolated from human behavior. Markets are made up of people and people impact economics as the market provides opportunities. However, similar to the famous “dot.com” boom, the popular version of this economic downturn shows that visionary leadership can be atrociously lacking to the point of intelligent people ignoring fundamentals of economics and business that are older than Hammurabi’s code. Read the rest of this entry »
Powerful and Effective Leadership – Within Reach!
Does the Definition Tell Us Much?
Leadership is a term that has been thrown around in organizational settings for a long time. So much so that the term itself has come caused frustration due to the range of meanings for which its definition contains. One hand, leadership can typify the kind of charismatic, and often selfishly destructive, behaviors of a Julius Caesar or Napoleon Bonaparte, while at other times we see the term bounded by the determined and effective pacifism of Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King. Both extremes make excellent arguments for what leadership is really all about. The trouble is they are poles apart!
In my last offering, I made an attempt at what represented an arguably academic discussion of the quandary that leadership can represent. (Click here to see: Does It Matter How You Define Leadership?) With my apologies to for sounding overly clinical, I am offering this discussion of leadership that will attempt to put some “flesh on the bones” of the term: Leadership. In so doing, it is my hope that I will offer some down to earth perspectives on leadership that can be of value to leaders in any organization.
Suffer the Academics a Little Longer. You’ll See My Point…
With this said, I will still rely on the benefits of the best that organizational science has to offer on the subject. Hang in there.
Does It Matter How You Define Leadership?
It matters! The experts agree…
Yes, it matters a great deal how leadership is defined. Gary Yukl, Ph.D. (2006) is widely recognized as an authority on the subject. Dr. Yukl convincingly asserts that the definition of leadership is not precisely defined. He poses this question in many of his writings and provides answers to this important question. He points out that although the term is broad by nature, viewed quite differently by academicians, and prescribed variously by practitioners, the fact remains that it is too important a phenomena to eschew definition due to the complexity of the intervening arguments. With this in mind, it is of great importance that those studying leadership consider a number of elements of leadership that can be measured through research processes. Yukl (2006) discusses roles, influence processes, behaviors, traits, and situational variables that comprise lines of research in leadership. Read the rest of this entry »
Publications
A list of selected Management Vision PDF, Word and Powerpoint publications are available for viewing, reproduction and interactive discussion. Read the rest of this entry »
Newsletters
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Industrial & Organizational (I/O) Psychology
Management Vision, P.C. uses principles of industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology in its consulting services. Continue reading to better understand I/O psychology and how it can be used in your organization.
