- Level 5 Leaders - appoint leaders who blend personal humility with strong professional will
- First Who...Then What - focus on getting the right people on the bus, then figured out where to drive
- Confront the Brutal Facts (yet never lose faith) - Be excruciatingly honest about your current position, but keep believing you will prevail
- The Hedgehog Concept - focus on doing one thing very well
- A Culture of Discipline - be disciplined in everything
- Technology Accelerators - use technology to accelerate change, rather than igniting it
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Good to Great (Jim Collins)
Good to Great is a mega-bestselling business book by Jim Collins. His thesis is that there are several identifiable characteristics common to "great" companies - by which he means companies that greatly exceed market average returns over a period of 15 years. Collins identified the following lessons from these "great" companies -
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I think this is a great book, and if you pull back a bit into some big picture thinking, has a lot of validity for organizations and even personal life.
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