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! ...

Finding your life purpose

Great companies, Collins tells us, always have a Hedgehog Concept. And they come up with that simple, crystalline concept by understanding three key dimensions. Those dimensions can be visualized as intersecting circles: ...

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

It took about four years on average for the good-to-great companies to clarify their Hedgehog Concepts. Like scientific insight, a Hedgehog Concept simplifies a complex world and makes decisions much easier. But while it has crystalline ...

Finding Your Personal Hedgehog Concept With Sokanu - Sokanu: The Blog

In business, Jim Collins references this because if you do not understand the deeper purpose behind your company, you will never become a great company. This is the problem with so many of the companies today. ... We usually pitch Sokanu as "a place to discover your passion in life" but it is more like "a place to discover your personal hedgehog concept". This concept is so simple, yet really holds the secret intersection to success in life. We think this is the key to ...

Unions, co-operatives and “fourth sector pathfinders”… « The ...

Search. The Wandering Hedgehog ... But what this case also demonstrates is a certain tension between the concept of co-operatives (and other forms of social enterprise) and trade unions. I'm sure this is one reason why the Tories have warmed to the idea of employee co-operatives in the public sector: their potential to undermine trade unions. Why join a union to help protect you from “the management” if you and your colleagues are “the management”? ...