Blogs Posts on "Jim Collins"
How a School Can Go From Good to GREAT, part III by Filipino Fighting Secrets on Sep 18, 2009They say that half of being a martial arts teacher is finding suitable students. I believe it is more than just filling up your floor with as many people as possible. Of course, doing so will add to your bottom line, giving you the income to teach wi...
Organizations, fear and leadership by Scholars & Rogues on Sep 18, 2009My wife, who’s working on her MBA, is currently wading through a class that focuses on leadership. The other night she observed that “there sure are a lot of people out there developing theories on leadership, aren’t there?” W...
How a School Can Go From Good to GREAT, part II by Filipino Fighting Secrets on Aug 31, 2009#1: The Level 5 Leader An organization cannot grow without a strong and committed leader. Notice that I did not say manager, but “leader”. Look at your school/style as an organization and not a business. In order for your school to make...
How a School Can Go From Good to GREAT, part I by Filipino Fighting Secrets on Aug 30, 2009I am not a well-educated man. Most of what I know came from reading and then trial and error. When I read a book, called Good To Great, by Jim Collins, I understood something I only partially understood through my upbringing as a young man and as a y...
Planning to Have that Baby, pt II by Filipino Fighting Secrets on Aug 15, 2009Right now, I am in Long Beach, California, on my way to take my 12 year old nephew, Yahya, who has just spent 4 weeks with me, back to Washington, DC. I wanted to put him on a plane alone, but 3 hours before his plane took off, he decided that he did...
Business: changing a corporate culture, buses and monkeys by Scholars & Rogues on Jul 1, 2009Business stuff two days in a row. How about that? So this morning’s lecture explains why fixing a broken corporate culture has something to do with angry, disoriented monkeys driving a bus on the sidewalk. Sorta.
Sermon: Exercising Faith by Big Circumstance - the blog of Dave Faulkner, a Methodist minister in the UK on Jun 27, 2009Mark 5:21-43 Nineteen seventy: a terrible year for music. It was the year that songs by football teams took off. Not only did Chelsea FC inflict ‘Blue is the colour’ on the nation when they reached the FA Cup Final, the England team heading to Me...
Book Review: Good to Great by JerseySmarts.com on May 28, 2009Chances are that if you’re a high level executive in the business world or if you are studying in an MBA program, you’ve at least heard of Jim Collins and his two famous books: Built to Last and Good to Great. I haven’t read Built...
How the Mighty Fall vs. The Black Swan by eaves.ca on May 20, 2009I've almost finished listening to Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan, a book about how large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations. At the same time, Tim O'Reilly caused me to stumble upon this article pr...
