Hedgehog Concepts

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4) Taking a cue from Collins' Hedgehog Concept, lead your companies around what you and your team members are passionate about, what is most profitable, and what you can be the best in the world at. Everything else? Stop doing it! .... Mike has completed his book The Art of Building a Great Business. For more helpful articles, visit the nonprofit site www.mikedubose.com. Katie Beck serves as senior technical writer to the family of companies. She is a graduate of the USC ...

Finding your life purpose

Collins and his research team spent significant time identifying the common factors that distinguish good companies from great companies. One of these factors is what came to be called The Hedgehog Concept, defined as… ... they come up with that simple, crystalline concept by understanding three key dimensions. Those dimensions can be visualized as intersecting circles: 3-circles-hedgehog-concept. To help grasp the three circles, a personal analogy is given in the book: ...

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don't

In order to be great (as individual or company) you have to have a hedgehog concept. What is that? Here's a quote from the book Are you a hedgehog or a fox? In a famous essay " The Hedgehog and the Fox," Isaiah Berlin divided the world ...

Good to Great #5: Hedgehog Concept « learning to lead

Good to Great #5: Hedgehog Concept. Jump to Comments. Here is the continuation of my breakdown of the key concepts of Jim Collins' great book, Good to Great. As I stated in an earlier blog I make it a point to read this book at least ...

Driven To Distraction

Now there are six main concepts in the book, but I only want to talk about one of them here. All of the “great” companies had in common what Collins refers to “A Hedgehog Concept” That is one idea that you pursue that has three ...