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The Most Beautiful Word in the English Language
We often confuse humility with timidity. Humility is not clothing ourselves in an attitude of self-abasement or self-denigration. Humility is all about maintaining our pride about who we are, about our achievements, about our worth – but without arrogance. Humility is one of the admirable characteristic of Level 5 leaders. These leaders direct their ego away from themselves to the larger goal of leading their company to greatness. These leaders are a complex, paradoxical mix of intense professional will and extreme personal humility. They will create superb results but shun public adulation, and are never boastful. What does it take to be such a leader?

From Good To Great To Gone
The first six weeks of 2009 were not kind to Jim Collins' eleven Good To Great companies. With some lyrical assistance from "The Chairman of the Board", I explore five formerly great companies and how one has roller coaster-ed from Good To Great To Gone.
Filling the Bus for Your "Good to Great" Odyssey
Your passengers and their placement will determine your success. That said, pursuing a Good To Great philosophy is not for everyone. Many have struggled in their attempts to implement the concepts from that business bible for greatness, Good To Great. This month, we briefly examine one of the book's most challenging concepts: First who, then what. Why is this so challenging? And, what might be done differently to make it work for you? If you're genuinely committed to pursuing greatness, how should you be filling your bus?
Pursuit of "Good to Great", Level Five Leadership
What is it? How do you pursue it? We examine Jim Collins' concept of Level 5 Leaders and define the attributes in the areas of style, motivators and inherent soft skills.
Question of the Day: What will you do with your failure?
"Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill
Go From Good to Great: Five Ways to Boost Your Sales Career
There is a chasm between good and great sales performance. Here are five ways to boost your sales career quickly.

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Leap into new Space -Jump before you're pushed
The opening line of the best selling business book of all time is as succinct as it is true: “Good is the enemy of great”. Jim Collins’ 2001 bestseller Good to Great explains how most companies never become great because they are already good. They have become prisoners of their past – not feeling any need to push boundaries, innovate, prepare for the unexpected, stretch themselves or make necessary changes to ensure sustainable success. In the 21st century, this is a recipe for disaster.

Searching for the Stars: How Yang and Filo Took Their Business to New Heights
“I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas,” says Yang. “I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.”
Lessons to learn from the book Good to Great
While the companies in the book Good to Great are large publicly owned corporations I believe that many of its lessons can be applied to small, privately owned businesses. I regularly recommend it as essential reading to our clients, who are all small business entrepreneurs. Here are some of the lessons to be learnt from Good to Great.
Passing Up Good for Great
Work/life balance requires surrender of part of one area - whether it's time spent on work or time spent on personal matters - in favor of the other. But we don't generally like giving up anything we want. We want it all, and we want it all now. Maturity requires us to recognize that perhaps we can have it all (though that too is open to question), but we certainly can't have it all at the same time. The single most useful skill for deciding how to arrange this work/life balance is the ability to pass up good for great. Learning that skill requires that we be able to recognize what's good and what's great, to identify appropriate time frames to help with the good/great evaluation, and to guard our decisions zealously.

From Good To Great To Gone
The first six weeks of 2009 were not kind to Jim Collins' eleven Good To Great companies. With some lyrical assistance from "The Chairman of the Board", I explore five formerly great companies and how one has roller coaster-ed from Good To Great To Gone.
To Real Leadership, Alignment is Everything
It's easy to talk about change, because this makes us feel good. But it's hard to actually change, because changing is difficult and can make us feel bad. Great leadership finds a way to pull people together around a few great, unifying ideas that will allow them to go beyond surviving change, and creates an environment where change can be welcomed and exploited for the common good.
Striving for Greatness with Good Employees
Being an effective leader, striving for excellence and being inspirational is essential to creating a great company. There is no doubt that during these tough economic times that average is not good enough. Look around, if you have average performing employees that can't seem to reach the level of performance that is in alignment with your vision, "Now is the time" to do something about that. However, don't let great be the enemy of good. Good employees are not easy to find or replace. Yes, great employees are what we all would like to have but everyone can not be great. Sometimes good is good enough. Remember that when evaluating individual performance in your organization. Good employees can make your company great.

Striving for Greatness
Being an effective leader, striving for excellence and being inspirational is essential to creating a great company. There is no doubt that during these tough economic times that average is not good enough. Look around, if you have average performing employees that can't seem to reach the level of performance that is in alignment with your vision, "Now is the time" to do something about that. However, don't let great be the enemy of good. Good employees are not easy to find or replace. Yes, great employees are what we all would like to have but everyone can not be great. Sometimes good is good enough. Remember that when evaluating individual performance in your organization. Good employees can make your company great.

The Difference Between A Good And Great Sales Person
When it comes to selling, why are some people only good, while others are great? "The Difference Between A Good And Great Sales Person" suggests a few characteristics to explore in a sales candidates history during the recruiting process.
Success Means Doing What You Do Best
Do what you do best. How many of us try and do everything instead of doing what we do best? A great line I picked up from the biography of Steve Jobs. If it wasn't for Steve, Woz's great innovation would just be in a hobby shop some place. I want you to really think about that. Woz was the expert engineer, but Steve was the expert marketer. Each did what they did best. The result of course is history – Apple. The point we need to take with us today is simply this – we need to let our people do what they are really good at and find someone else to do what they are not very good at. By doing this we create tremendous unbelievable success.
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