Hedgehog Concepts

Tips for Prescribing a Future of Your Choice

Collins and his team coined the term "hedgehog concept" to reflect a single-minded determination and focus that, similar to that of the hedgehog animal, attempts to do only one thing really well, such as curl up and roll. ...

9 Tips on How to Make a Small Business Successful

Collins describes this competency as the business's “hedgehog concept.” This comes from a famous Aesop's fable about the Hedgehog and the Fox. As the story goes, every morning, the Fox attacks the Hedgehog in a different way. ...

Leadership Formation and Level 5 Leadership!

The hedgehog concept is an intriguing title for one of the steps in moving from Good to Great. Collins draws upon a parable created by Isaiah Berlin who contrasted the hedgehog and the fox. The hedgehog had a simple strategy and tactic ...

Pure Visibility Bookshelf

You'll hear the phrases he's coined in Rockefeller Habits and elsewhere such as the “Hedgehog concept” and “Get the right people on the bus”. Corporate Culture STRENGTHS FINDER: Way more than a book, this includes an online survey that ...

Buy Your Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and ...

At the heart of the findings about these companies' stellar successes is what Collins calls the Hedgehog Concept, a product or service that leads a company to outshine all worldwide competitors, that drives a company's economic engine ...