I attended the “Good to Great” Immersion workshop featuring Jim Collins in Chicago this week. I was grateful that my clients, Roseann (Bills) Schmid, P.E., and Christopher Smith with Fisher Associates PE, LS, LA, DPC, could attend with me.
To say I was blown away was an understatement.
I was introduced to Jim Collins’s work about 22 years ago when he published his best-selling book “Good To Great.” I have used his work in my business coaching practice for the last 20 years. Hearing Jim talk about these concepts took the material to a whole new level. Additionally, he admits he has evolved some of his thinking since the original release. I have learned several things that I will take away and utilize as I coach high-growth entrepreneurial companies in the future.
Here are my top 5 take-away’s:
✅ Change the question from “What” to “Who” – it’s always about “Who”
✅On leadership – you can train all you want, but if they are not encoded for leadership, they are not encoded for it
✅Half of bankruptcies occur after a year of record growth
✅Leadership is the art of getting the people to “Want” to do what must be done
✅To stay in the right mindset, consider an end-of-day ritual consisting of journaling 3 components:
-Brief diary of the day
-Rate the day from a +2 to -2
-# of hours doing your most important work
If you haven’t read Jim’s book “Good to Great,” read it this weekend. If you have, pick it up and read it again. The material is as relevant today as it was back in 2001.
Coach Keith
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