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Tag: Jim Collins insights

  • Why CAN’T CREATIVITY alone be a DIFFERENTIATOR?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Jim Collins’s book Great by Choice..

    The difficult task is to marry relentless discipline with creativity, neither letting discipline inhibit creativity nor letting creativity erode discipline.”

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Great by Choice

    Thus the right amount of discipline when married with creativity can create magic.

  • Why is the “20 MILE MARCH” key to consistent performance?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Jim Collins’s book Great by Choice..

    “If you want to achieve consistent performance, you need both parts of a 20 Mile March: a lower bound and an upper bound, a hurdle that you jump over and a ceiling that you will not rise above, the ambition to achieve and the self-control to hold back.  ”

    Adopted from Jim Collins’s book Great by Choice

    Having the discipline to remain within the bounds of the 20 mile march is what differentiates consistent performers from others.

  • Why doing MEANINFUL WORK is IMPORTANT?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great.

    “For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

    Thus meaningful work plays a very important role in our lives.

  • Can GOOD be the ENEMY of GREAT?

    The following self help and motivational insight has been adopted from Jim Collins’s 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.”

    Thus SETTLING for GOOD is the primary reason that limits the number of GREAT PEOPLE in our universe.

  • As a LEADER how frequently do you exhibit these THREE qualities?

    The following leadership insight has been adopted from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great

    The following THREE core QUALITIES are exhibited by the BEST of LEADERS , these qualities find relevance in our everyday lives as well

    Level 5 Leadership