Seeds of Success
Jim Collins: Go From Good to Great
Jim Collins’ 2001 best-seller, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t, catapulted him into the success stratosphere. Collins, 53, has devoted years to studying enduring great companies, discerning why some succeed wildly while competitors with even better products or ideas plod along or flame out.
Collins and his research team identified several things companies making the leap from good to great have in common. Here’s just a few.
Level 5 Leadership � Leaders of great ennduring companies possess a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will, more like Lincoln than Patton; they’re intent on building, contributing and creating something that will endure rather than furthering their own interests in fame, fortune or power.
First Who… Then What � Leaders begin tthe transition, not by setting a new vision or strategy, but by getting “the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats�and then they figured out wherre to drive it,” Collins says.
A Culture of Discipline � “When you have disciplined people, you don’t need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don’t need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don’t need excessive controls,” Collins says. “When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance.”
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