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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heroic levels of customer service, dependability, reliability, and giving people a lot of freedom to try different things that might work.
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To grow a lot more, Eric has to find a way to multiply himself. He needs to create not just managers out of his workers, but people with the same entrepreneurial spirit. If Eric can't solve that problem, he will be limited by the number of hours he can be in one place at one time in a day.
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A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.
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That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it.
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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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If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.
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The first is that instead of writing a sequel, which is what most people do, this is in fact a prequel. Although we didn't know that when we began the process.
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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, that single idea of always first who, then what, has had a huge influence on me and I hope to continue to be able to make progress on it.
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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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With the focus of this year's Art and Music Festival on youth, we think it's important to encourage the participation of as many local students as possible. Not many young musicians will have a professional performing career, but we'd like to give them an opportunity they'll never forget -- their own recital at the Norris.
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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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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.