#Chamber Executive Ongoing Education New Idea: "Good to Great!" a Single Question: Can a Good Company Become a Great Company, and if so, How?; Nancy Spivey Moving to Executive Director of Dearborn County Chamber; Owensboro Community & Technical College Expansion Would be a Boost to Region; Famous Chamber of Commerce Quotes on Political Advocacy: If you’re not at the table...

Start with 1,435 good companies. Examine their performance over 40 years. Find the 11 companies that became great. Now here's how you can do it too. Lessons on eggs, flywheels, hedgehogs, buses, and other essentials of business that can help you transform your company.
I want to give you a lobotomy about change. I want you to forget everything you’ve ever learned about what it takes to create great results. I want you to realize that nearly all operating prescriptions for creating large-scale corporate change are nothing but myths.
The Myth of the Change Program: This approach comes with the launch event, the tag line, and the cascading activities.
The Myth of the Burning Platform: This one says that change starts only when there’s a crisis that persuades “unmotivated” employees to accept the need for change.
The Myth of Stock Options: Stock options, high salaries, and bonuses are incentives that grease the wheels of change.
The Myth of Fear-Driven Change: The fear of being left behind, the fear of watching others win, the fear of presiding over monumental failure—all are drivers of change, we’re told.
The Myth of Acquisitions: You can buy your way to growth, so it figures that you can buy your way to greatness.
The Myth of Technology-Driven Change: The breakthrough that you’re looking for can be achieved by using technology to leapfrog the competition.
The Myth of Revolution: Big change has to be wrenching, extreme, painful—one big, discontinuous, shattering break.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Totally wrong.
Here are the facts of life about these and other change myths.

This book addresses a single question: can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Based on a five-year research project comparing teams that made a leap to those that did not, Good to Great shows that greatness is not primarily a function of circumstance, but largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. This book discusses concepts like Level 5 Leadership, First Who (first get the right people on the bus, then figure out where to drive it), and the Flywheel. 

Source: JimCollins.com

Nancy Spivey Moving to Executive Director of Dearborn County Chamber
Nancy Spivey, formerly COO, Senior VP of the Northern Kentucky Chamber is the new Executive Director of the Dearborn County Chamber of Commerce (Lawrenceburg, Indiana). 

Source: Glenn Shepard  

Owensboro Community & Technical College Expansion Would be a Boost to Region

The Kentucky General Assembly is now more than halfway through their 2014 session, and there has been much activity in their budget building process. At the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce, we've kept our ear to the ground on the progress of bills and funding of projects that are important to our membership and the region. One of those projects at the top of the Community Priorities list is the Owensboro Community & Technical College's (OCTC) Advanced Technology Center (ATC) Phase II. Read More: Messenger-Inquirer

Famous Chamber of Commerce Quotes on Political Advocacy:

If you’re not at the table, you’re probably on the menu.

Richard Studley, Michigan Chamber of Commerce