I’m reading Jim Collin’s book Good to Great and very much enjoying it. There are many very important ideas I think for an institute like Krasnow. The book itself is a study of a cohort of companies that made a step-wise transition from being very good at what they did to being great at it….in comparison to a matched cohort which did not.
Among my favorite concepts:
–it’s important to have the right people on the “bus”….more important in fact than what the vision is.
–motivational speeches are inherently a waste of time–if you have the right folks, they will be self-motivated
–put your best people on projects with the greatest opportunities, rather than on your biggest problems.
What’s nice about Collin’s book is that he didn’t come into these conclusions with some agenda. Rather the conclusions emerged from an empirical analysis of his data.
Jim
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