Excerpts from Where are you on your journey from Good to Great?
First Who … Then What. Those who build great organizations make sure they have the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the key seats before they figure out where to drive the bus. They always think first about “who” and then about what.
The Hedgehog Concept. Greatness comes about by a series of good decisions consistent with a simple, coherent concept—a “Hedgehog Concept.” The Hedgehog Concept is an operating model that reflects understanding of three intersecting circles: what you can be the best in the world at, what you are deeply passionate about, and what best drives your economic or resource engine.
August 5, 2008 at 12:32 am |
Very powerful distinction.
In my experience as a consultant the Passion factor is critical for success at each level. We overestimate the rational, economically motivation as THE motivation. I find the model and economic incentives to be foundational yet not dispositive of greatness in business leadership. The clearer and more fundemental tha passion and value proposition intersect, the more simple and clear the leader.
November 23, 2009 at 5:24 am |
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.