Good To Great

I admire great operators. This is coming from a biased place given that I have been operationally focused for the better part of my career. What is an operator? To me, an operator is someone who implements methods, procedures, or frameworks methodically and carefully to achieve a larger goal. I…

Using a “hedgehog concept” and time budgeting to manage expectations around workload — Bad Bosses can sometimes overload us with work. A bad boss either doesn’t pay attention to our day to day reality, or they don’t care. They continually add new tasks, projects and responsibilities, leaving us feeling like the horse in Buckaroo. Sometimes there’ll just be too many tasks. Other times…

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.”

“Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?”. If your quest is to get an answer to this question, then this is the book to read. Jim Collins and his 21 research associates analyzed 40 years of operating results of 1435 established companies to pick 11…

How the wisdom of a POW can give a future of freedom and prosperity You’re probably unfamiliar with Admiral Stockdale, the highest ranking American POW of the Vietnam War. If you’re old enough, you may remember that he ran for Vice President of the United States on a ticket with…

7 Lessons from Good to Great Good to Great Influential management professor Jim Collins released the popular Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t in 2001. The book is really a research project led by Collins as a follow-up to his book Built to Last: Successful Habits…

I initially read this book 5 years ago as I was preparing to leave the 75th Ranger Regiment, and it made a big impact on how I viewed companies and corporate leadership. While the Regiment could implement multiple ideas in this book it’s hard if not impossible for traditional Army…

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