Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great highlights the Hedgehog Concept
Tag: Good to Great
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This is why visionary companies stand out
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great
“Visionary companies are so clear about what they stand for and what they’re trying to achieve that they simply don’t have room for those unwilling or unable to fit their exacting standards.”
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This is when a person’s CHARISMA becomes a liability
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great
“Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.”
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This is what separates the GOOD people from the BEST
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book “good to great”
“What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.”
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This educates us on the need of a proper hiring process
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great
“The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.”
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Want to nurture a good work environment? This tip will help
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great
“Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the wrong people. Worse, it can drive away the best people. Strong performers are intrinsically motivated by performance, and when they see their efforts impeded by carrying extra weight, they eventually become frustrated.”
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GREATNESS is a function of this
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great
“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline”
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This is why BUREAUCRACY kills creativity
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great
“The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.”
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This is why GOOD is the biggest enemy of GREAT
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great
“Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.”
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Having the right people is key to taking a company from good to great , this shows how
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great
“Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. “