Good to Great

Question 1

Colon’s coined their term Level 5 Leader

Answer 1

To describe the highest level of executive capabilities identified in research.

Question 2

Level 1-4 Leadership are

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Highly capable individual, contributing team member, competent manager and executive leader

Question 3

Level 5 leaders were ambitious but their ambition was directed first and foremost toward

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The company and it’s success not to personal renown

Question 4

Level 5 leaders are

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Fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce results.

Question 5

When thing go well they give credit to others or simple good luck

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When things go bad they look in the mirror and never blame bad luck

Question 6

Level 5 leaders did not

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Exhibit enormous egos

Question 7

Legislative leadership relies on

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Persuasion, political currency, and shared interests to create conditions for the right decisions to happen.

Question 8

True leadership

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Only exists if people follow when they have freedom not to.

Question 9

The right people can often attract money

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But money by itself can never attract the right people.

Question 10

Get the right people on the bus

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Then find a direction.

Question 11

Great companies had

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Red flag mechanisms and other tools for calling attention to information that can not be ignored.

Question 12

What is the hedgehog concept

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An understanding of what you can be the best at

Question 13

Geek parable the fox

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Knows many things

Question 14

Greek parable the hedgehog

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Knows one big thing

Question 15

Good to great companies had a

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Culture of discipline employees showed extreme diligence and intensity in thoughts and actions always focusing on implementing the hedgehog concept

Question 16

The opposite of a culture of discipline is

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Bureaucracy

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Bureaucratic culture arises from

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To compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline which arise from having the wrong people on the bus.

Question 18

In a culture of discipline

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Employees don’t need to be disciplined because they have self-discipline so the can be given greater freedom and responsibility to do their jobs

Question 19

What percentage of good to great executives didn’t mention technology

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80%

Question 20

When used right technology becomes

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An accelerator of momentum not a creator of it.

Question 21

No matter how dramatic the end result, the good to great transformation never happened in on fell swoop. Good to great executives said they were unaware that a major transformation was underway until they were well into it.

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Flywheel

Question 22

Marked by chronic restructuring,fads, management hoopla action without discipline thought and inconsistency

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Doom Loop