Week 9 - DISCIPLE LEADERSHIP

In Aspects of Building Trust by Guy Kawasaki, Garage Technology Ventures, Kawasaki urges individuals to be "bakers," meaning trustworthy individuals seeking to create larger pies to share in the world. He also describes the value in building trust by "defaulting to yes."

I already had the opportunity to read “Good t great” and it is an amazing book. In this book by Jim Collings we can learn about 6 concepts:

Disciplined People – Concept #1 – Level 5 Leadership

The leaders of great companies are not high profile or celebrities. Instead, the CEOs of great companies are most likely to have come from somewhere inside the company and will have personalities that are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. And most often, they will attribute their success to good luck rather than personal greatness.

Disciplined People – Concept #2 – First “Who”, Then “What”

The key to making a good-to-great transition isn’t setting the right objective. Instead, concentrate on getting the right people on board, and then they will figure out what the most important objective should be. And the more people with initiative and skills that join the team, the better.

Disciplined Thought – Concept #3 – Confront the True Facts

All good-to-great companies openly face the competitive realities of the markets in which they operate without losing faith that in the end, the company can and must prevail. Honesty and candor allows these companies to make the right decisions as they move forward instead of distorting the facts.

Disciplined Thought – Concept #4 – Hedgehog Concept

Hedgehogs are relatively simple animals who know just one big thing and stick to it. Good-to-great companies do something similar – they consistently stick to doing what they do best and avoid getting distracted into new fields of business that are away from their core competencies. Good-to-great companies move ahead of their competitors by pursuing only those projects that have three traits: 1. What they can be “best in the world” at. 2. What drives profitability for their business model. 3. What their people are deeply passionate about.

Disciplined Action – Concept #5 – Culture of Discipline

Having disciplined people eliminates the need for a hierarchy. Similarly, disciplined thought eliminates the need for a bureaucracy while disciplined action means there is no call for excessive controls. Good-to-great companies combine a culture of discipline with an entrpreneurial ethic to generate truly great marketplace performance.

Disciplined Action – Concept #6 – Technology Accelerator

Good-to-great companies don’t get caught up in new technology fads. Instead, they link technology with the hedgehog concept – that is, they will adopt a new technology only if it accelerates their performance in an area which they are passionate about, perform to world-class standards and makes money.