Tag: Fanatic Discipline

  • 10X organizations and their Fanatic Discipline

    10X organizations known as 10Xers in Jim Collins’s book Great by Choice are consistently high performing companies who are extremely consistent in action, adhering to strict values, goals, performance standards and methods. They are relentless, monomaniacal and unyielding in focusing on their quests. Such organizations exhibit Fanatic Discipline leading to what is called the 20…

  • Why is “Fanatic Discipline” needed for high performance?

    Fanatic Discipline helps in displaying extreme consistency of action in terms of values , goals , performance standards & methods. With a sense of “Fanatic Discipline” , high performers are utterly relentless , unbending in their focus on their quests. Adopted from Jim Collins’s book titled “Great By Choice”

  • What happens when “operational excellence” marries “innovation”?

    When we marry operating excellence with innovation it multiplies the value of creativity and it turn amplifies growth of a 10x high performing organization Thus the greatest challenge is to blend creative intensity with relentless discipline Adopted from Jim Collins’s book titled “Great by Choice”

  • What happens when the aggressive growth strategy is not sustainable?

    Let us a look at the following 10X high performance organizations(highlighted in bold)vs their competitors who were outclassed in the long run Stryker vs USSC Southwest Airlines vs PSA Progressive Insurance vs Safeco Intel vs AMD Amgen vs Genetech Be it AMD , USSC or the other players one common link which made all these…

  • How do “high performing” companies overcome uncertainty?

    “The 20 mile march” or the disciplined and consistent year on year growth plans of high performing companies , impose order amidst disorder , consistency amidst uncertain environment. This sense of “fanatic discipline” manifested in the form of the well thought out growth plans sacrifice the enticement of aiming for greater growth when the tide…