Hedgehog Concepts

The Pareto Project [Blog]: 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. ...

The Hedgehog Concept | Harpoon Harbor

"The Hedgehog Concept" is one of the core differentiators between "good" and "great" companies. "The Hedgehog Concept" is similar in it's idea to Aesop's fable "The Tortoise and the Hare": One day a hare saw a tortoise walking slowly ...

The Hedgehog Concept

What does this have to do with the Hedgehog Concept? Well, it seems very connected. In Jim Collins book “Good to Great”, the animal characters are a fox and a hedgehog. It is a new fable describing how companies look at their business. ...

Luxury Real Estate Marketing – Are You a Fox Or a Hedgehog?

The hedgehog concept was derived from a fable about a fox and hedgehog and illustrates the strategic difference between the two. Foxes are dispersed strategists. They will try any strategy that they believe will give them the immediate ...