James Collins
James Collins
Though he is most famous for his bestselling and widely translated book Built to Last, this author, speaker, and business consulting expert also penned Great By Choice and Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap. . .And Others Don't.
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth25 January 1958
CityBoulder, CO
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The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time.
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The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.
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If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question.
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Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what's there.
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So my answer is, YES, everyone can find a hedgehog concept. If these companies can do it, anyone can do it. And anybody who says they can't is simply whining.
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There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost.
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Ha, well you see... this notion of a balanced life, I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have that... but I can have what I call an integrated life.
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I dislocated my other shoulder last year so I knew what the pain was going to be like. It was pretty sore so I had to go off.
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