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  • This quote exposes a common flaw of human psychology

    Adopted from the following quote of David Rock from his book Your Brain at Work

    “We all often think about what’s easy to think about, rather than what’s right to think about.”

  • This quote explains the merits of Self Awareness

    Adopted from David Rock’s great quote from his book Your Brain at Work..

    “Without this ability to stand outside your experience, without self-awareness, you would have little ability to moderate and direct your behavior moment to moment. Such real-time, goal-directed modulation of behavior is the key to acting as a mature adult. You need this capacity to free yourself from the automatic flow of experience, and to choose where to direct your attention. Without a director you are a mere automaton, driven by greed, fear, or habit.”

  • How an organization reacts to technological change is an indicator of GREATNESS

    How an organization reacts to technological change is a good indicator of its inner drive for greatness vs mediocrity..

    Great organizations respond with thoughtfulness and creativity driven by a compulsion of turning unrealized potential into results..

    Mediocre companies react and lurch about motivated of fear of being left behind ..

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great

  • This insight shows Technology can at best be an enabler not a driver of change

    Adopted from the book of Jim Collins , Good to Great..

    Jim Collins mentions that certainly a company cannot remain a laggard and hope to be great but technology by itself can never be a primary cause of either GREATNESS or DECLINE..

  • This piece of advice differentiates the GREAT from the GOOD

    Those who turn GREAT are motivated by a deep sense of creative urge and inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake..

    Those who build and perpetuate MEDIOCRITY are motivated more by the fear of being left behind..

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great

  • Aligning use of technology with the Hedgehog Concept

    The great organizations use technology as the ACCELERATOR of momentum not the CREATOR of it..

    Great organizations understand technology first and decide to adopt the relevant technology that aligns with the three circles of the Hedgehog Concept..

    Adopted from Jim Collins”s book Good to Great , this is what makes great organizations so successful..

  • Great organizations follow this mantra while taking any business decision

    The great organizations as mentioned by Jim Collins in his book Good to Great follow the below simple mantra for any business decision..

    “Anything that does not fit with the HEDGEHOG concept they do not do”

    They do not launch unrelated businesses , do not make unrelated acquisitions , unrelated joint ventures..

    If it does not fit they do not do..

  • An enduring culture of discipline cannot be built with force

    Great organizations led by Level 5 leaders build an enduring culture of discipline whereas comparison companies who are led by talented yet not Level 5 leaders tend to personally discipline the organization through sheer force.

    This comparison is a leadership masterclass and shows why Level 5 leadership is so difficult to attain..

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great

  • Great organizations build consistent systems with clear constraints

    The great organizations build consistent systems with clear constraints..

    Along with this they also give the people freedom and responsibility within the framework of the system..

    They hire self disciplined system who do not need to be managed , manage the system and not the people..

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great..

  • These are the two principles based on which great companies craft their strategies

    • Firstly , the great organizations craft their strategies around deep understanding of the three circles mentioned in the Hedgehog concept:
      1. What can you be BEST in the WORLD at?
      2. What are you DEEPLY PASSIONATE about?
      3. Is the strategy ECONOMICALLY VIABLE?
    • Secondly the great organizations translate their understanding into a simple , crystalline concept that guided all the efforts

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s  book Good to Great