Hedgehog Concepts

The Fox & The Hedgehog... Go Networking!

The idea for the hedgehog concept is drawn from the fable about the tortoise and the hare. In the story, the tortoise and the hare decide to have a race. It looks like the hare will win, because he is so much faster, but because he gets ...

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. ...

Single Focus of Apple's Hedgehog concept

We say no way to good concepts each day. We say no way to good ideas in order to keep the quantity of things we concentrate on very small in number so that we can put huge energy behind the ones we do choose. ...

Book Reviews – Good to Great/REWORK « Unlimited Magazine

In order to make their concepts stickier, they use pretty awful management jargon to identify the underlying trends they uncovered in their research. For instance, the Hedgehog Concept, that is when you concentrate only on what you can ...

The Power of Focus!

Jim Collins refers to the Hedgehog Concept to describe how focused people can achieve greater results than others. The Hedgehog concept compares two animals; a fox, which is very clever and knows many creative ways to get a meal, ...