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Tag Archives: Jim Collins

May 2011 Newsletter: Jim Collins Lives Lean

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Dan
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Take a page from Jim Collins: learn to apply lean techniques and improve the quality of your own work. Download PDF

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Those BHAGs Will Kill You.

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Dan
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Jim Collins and Jerry Porras coined the term BHAG (“big, hairy, audacious goal”) in their article, Building Your Company’s Vision, back in 1996. Since that time it’s become so much a part of the lingua franca of business that you … Continue reading →

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Closed Lists, Kanbans, and the Key to Prioritization.

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Dan
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I was recently revisiting Mark Forster’s concept of the “closed list.” (Mark is the author of Do It Tomorrow, and a leading productivity consultant and thinker based in the UK who’s well-worth reading.) The closed list is essentially a to-do … Continue reading →

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