Over the last several weeks, I’ve posted articles about “Good to Great”. Now is the time to collect them together and finish this off.
Here is the list of posts:
Good to Great
Level 5 Leadership
First Who, Then What
Confront the Brutal Facts
The Hedgehog Concept
A Culture of Discipline
Technology Accelerators
The Flywheel and the Doom Loop
From Good to Great to [...]
This is where understanding “Good to Great” should get a whole lot easier. If you have an hour to spare and are curious but don’t feel like reading the book yet, watch this video. Charlie Rose, famous on PBS in America, interviews Jim Collins and covers the “Good to Great” topics [...]
Finally we are at the last chapter of “Good to Great” with the title “From Good To Great To Built To Last”. This is chapter 9 of a fairly short book if you take out all the extra material at the end. Jim Collins set out to answer the question what makes good [...]
We are getting closer to the end of “Good to Great”. This is about chapter 8 which is titled “The Flywheel and the Doom Loop”. Sounds a bit like something from Indiana Jones. Seriously, it hits upon the nature of success. Most people, from the media’s coaching, believe that things happen overnight. Most people and [...]
We are now up to chapter 7 of “Good to Great” with the chapter title of “Technology Accelerators”. Most good companies understand that they need technology to progress. Great companies realize that not all technology is useful and that technology is more of an aid than a primary mover. Adoption of technology [...]
This is about chapter 6 of “Good to Great” and it is called “A Culture of Discipline”.
In every new company is a seed of creativity and a sense of entrepreneurial spirit. Bold moves are made and if success comes, the company grows. This growth triggers problems however. It is much more difficult to control a [...]
For those of you already familiar with “Good to Great”, certainly the Hedgehog Concept is perhaps the easiest to remember. In relation to all the other areas (Level 5 Leadership, First Who Then What, Confront the Brutal Facts) we have talked about so far, this idea is the most pivotal to becoming great.
Before diving in [...]
Continuing on to Chapter 4 of “Good to Great”, we have “Confront the Brutal Facts“. Each of these chapters reveal something crucial to becoming a great company. In this case, it is the ability to face reality but at the same time not lose faith.
Most employees face the brutal facts everyday. They deal with the [...]
1. WHO 2. WHAT
Continuing on the path of understanding what makes good into great, the next step is understanding the value of the idea “First who, then what“. This is the third chapter of “Good to Great”.
For most companies, “what to do” is often considered more important than “who to do it”. [...]
Yesterday I wrote about “Good to Great” in general. Today I am going to focus on an idea called level 5 leadership. It is chapter 2 of the book and I remember being surprised by its revelations. At first it didn’t make sense that it would be true but by the end [...]
