Selections from lectures by Jim Collins

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• The 10 Greatest CEOs
• Aligning Your Organization with Its Vision
• Are the Great Companies from the Research Great Places to Work? It Depends
• Autopsies without Blame
• Being Charismatic and Wrong Is a Bad Combination
• The Bell Curve V. the Double Hump
• Building Mechanisms Drives Progress
• Building Vision — the Physics and Engineering Principles of Building Great Companies
• Can a Hedgehog Be a Program?
• Can My Hedgehog Concept Help Provide Satisfaction with My Current Work?
• Can You Be a Level 5 Leader without a Hedgehog Concept?
• A Conversation with a Church Leader About the Resource Engine
• The Council as a Mechanism to Understand the Inflection Points of Change
• Creating a Pocket of Greatness
• "Dialogue and Debate, Not Consensus"
• The DNA of Enduring Greatness Lies in the "AND"
• Do You Suffer the Curse of Competence?
• The Essence of Level 5 as Demonstrated by Abraham Lincoln
• Even the Great Make Hiring Mistakes
• "First Who" Is Not Just a Business Concept
• "First Who, the Hedgehog Concept, and Your Personal Trajectory"
• The Five Key Things to Consider When Looking for the Right People
• The Fundamental Inputs to Create Superior Performance
• Funding: Time-Telling Vs. Clock-Building
• A Funny Thing Happens Around Level 5 Leaders
• GE and the Process Hedgehog
• "Getting Back to Values, and Other Lessons from IBM"
• Getting People Off the Bus
• Getting the Right People in the Right Seats over Time
• Getting the Right People on the Bus - And the Wrong People Off the Bus - In a Family Business
• Getting Your Core Values Right
• Good Is the Enemy of Great
• Greatness Is a Matter of Conscious Choice and Discipline
• Harnessing the Flywheel
• How Companies Go from Good to Great to Irrelevant
• How Do You Do "Stop Doing?"
• How to Find Your Company's Three Circles
• How to Find Your Personal Hedgehog Concept
• A Hypothesis: Executive and Legislative Leadership
• I Am a Recovering Leadership Atheist
• "If We Only Have Great Companies, We Will Merely Have a Prosperous Society - Not a Great One"
• The Importance of Distinguishing Inputs from Outputs
• The Inverse Relationship of Leadership and Power
• Is Level 5 Learnable?
• It Really Matters that You Have Core Values. It Really Doesn't Matter What They Are!
• Lack of Resources Is No Excuse for Lack of Rigor
• The Level 5 Evolution
• Managing Expectations Before Breakthrough
• "The Moment You Begin to Think of Yourself as Great, You've Lost It"
• Money Is a Commodity; Talent Is Not
• The Path to the Book Good to Great Began with a Question
• The Power of the Comparison Analysis
• The Pursuit of Greatness Is a Journey that Never Ends
• Revolution at Egg...
• The Role of Strategic Planning as a Mechanism for Disciplined Thought
• The Social Sectors' Compelling Advantage: The Desperate Craving for Meaning in Our Lives
• The Solution Is Not to Be More Like a Business
• The Stockdale Paradox
• The Story of Starbucks' Journey to Find its BHAG
• Thinking About Your Economic Denominator
• The Three Circles and the Resource Engine
• Trying to Motivate People is a Waste of Time
• The Way You Confront the Brutal Facts Can Mean the Difference Between Good and Great
• What About Companies that Stumble?
• What About Luck?
• What Is Important About a Personal Council or Board of Directors?
• Why Built to Last Is the Wrong Title
• Why You Can't Get a Yellow Shirt
• Work-Life Balance and the Level 5 Leader
• The Wrong People Can't Be Motivated to Do the Right Thing
• You Don't Need to Be Big to Be Great