{"id":9193,"date":"2016-09-08T22:25:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T05:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dminlgp.com\/?p=9193"},"modified":"2016-09-08T22:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T05:25:55","slug":"good-to-great-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/good-to-great-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Good to Great"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"good2great\"<\/a>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

The leadership market is filled with a plethora of authors and principles that vacillate from \u201csnake oil\u201d to legitimate and practical practices and theories.\u00a0 Among the best is widely acclaimed and respected author Jim Collins. \u00a0In my opinion, Collins is considered a canonized author on the sacred writings of leadership.\u00a0 Since its release, then has been my \u201cgo to\u201d for myself and aspiring leaders.<\/p>\n

Collins begins his leadership treatise with six words that become his clarion call throughout his book, \u201cGood is the enemy of great.\u201d[1]<\/a>\u00a0 Business and social sectors can reduce their focus to being \u201cgood\u201d and miss the disciplines to being \u201cgreat\u201d.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Collins believes that there are three simple truths that good to great leaders possess: \u201cFirst, if you begin with \u2018who\u2019, rather than \u2018what\u2019, you can more easily adapt to a changing world. Second, if you have the right people on the bus, the problem on how to motivate and manage people largely goes away.\u00a0 Third, if you have the wrong people, it doesn\u2019t matter whether you discover the right direction, you still won\u2019t have a great company.\u00a0 Great vision without great people is irrelevant.\u201d[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

Good to Great <\/em>stays in lock step with Collins\u2019 previous book, Built to Last, <\/em>which emphasizes how companies can accept \u201cgood\u201d and miss the potential of being \u201cgreat\u201d.\u00a0 Collins examines companies, that we are all familiar with \"goodtogreatflywheel\"<\/a>in their successes and those that have failed, and gives us principles of why they are where they are at.\u00a0 The principles are researched and then shown how to be reproducible.<\/p>\n

Collins\u2019 Good to Great <\/em>focuses on:\u00a0 \u201cFirst Who\u2026Then What, Confront the Brutal Facts (Yet Never Lose Faith, The Hedgehog Concept, A Culture of Discipline\u201d.[3]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 These Main areas are what take a business or social sector from being stagnated in \u201cgood\u201d and the successful position of being \u201cgreat\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Collins great line is, \u201cGood is the enemy of great.\u201d\u00a0 Institutions and religious organizations can be, and are hindered, with their present \u201cbottom line\u201d dilemma.\u00a0 This is what I refer to as present reality or the failure to look at the real picture.\u00a0 But possibly of greater concern is the inevitable transition of the senior leader in every institution and religious organization.<\/p>\n

Is there an acceptance of a \u201cgood\u201d senior leader because of past success or creativity versus the pursuit of a \u201cgreat\u201d leader that can raise the institution or organization to heights beyond what has ever been known?\u00a0 Collins\u2019 work in the social sector has helped to address these concerns versus writing it off because the social sector operates at both a lower standard and lower disciplines.<\/p>\n

His simple 36 page, Good to Great and the Social Sectors<\/em>, disarms the disparity between the social sector and the business community.\u00a0 Collins made it clear by saying, \u201cWe must reject the idea \u2013 well-intentioned, but dead wrong \u2013 that the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become \u2018more like a business.\u00a0 Most businesses \u2013 like most of anything in life \u2013 fall somewhere between mediocre and good.\u00a0 Few are great. \u201d[4]<\/a><\/p>\n

Collins believes that the success within the social sector is linked to five issues that are distinct to the social sector and quite different than the business sector.\u00a0 His third issue, of the five, is \u201cFirst Who \u2013 Getting the Right People on the Bus, within Social Sector Constraints\u201d.[5]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Collins scathingly warns, \u201cTime and talent can often compensate for lack of money, but money cannot compensate for lack of the right people.\u201d[6]<\/a><\/p>\n

As I have researched my dissertation on transitioning senior leaders, it seems that the burden of transition falls on one of three entities:\u00a0 the incumbent, the candidate, and the organization.\u00a0 Collins call to the \u201cright people\u201d seem to resonate in all three entities to have the right people on their seat of the bus. \u00a0Collins calls all to recognize where we are and where we can be.<\/p>\n

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[1]<\/a> Jim Collins, Good to Great, Why Some Companies Make the Leap\u2026and Others Don\u2019t, <\/em>(New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001), 1.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> Ibid., 42.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Ibid., Contents Page.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Jim Collins, Good to Great and the Social Sectors, <\/em>(Boulder, CO: self-published by Jim Collins, 2005), 1.<\/p>\n

[5]<\/a> Ibid., 13.<\/p>\n

[6]<\/a> Ibid., 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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