Crawl, Walk, Run
What is Walgreens?
Come and go
What are Bubbles?
An accelerator of momentum, not a creator of it.
What is technology?
Thoughtless reliance on technology
Not driven by
What is Fear?
Ways the executives reacted unusually
What is Pause, Reflect, Think?
Through all of this change, ________ have adapted and endured.
What is great companies?
What type of technology fits directly with your Hedgehog Concept?
What is a pioneer in the application of technology?
Number of executives and board members that were interviewed and picked technology as the number one factor in the shift.
Organizations that avoid the fads and bandwagons that typically arise from new technologies.
What are Good to Great organizations?
Harnessed this to accelerate momentum.
What is the internet?
Pioneered application of sophisticated manufacturing technology for making billions of high-tolerance products at low cost with fantastic consistency
Who is Gillette?
Technology alone cannot create
What is sustained great results?
80% of companies didn't even mention technology as one of the top five factors in the transformation of their company
What is true in companies famous for pioneering the application of technology?
Cannot make you Level 5, cannot turn the wrong people into the right people, cannot create a culture of discipline
What is technology?
Calm, deliberate pursuit of understanding, followed by calm, deliberate steps forward
What is Walk?
How do good-to-great organizations _______ _______ about technology?
What is think differently?
_______ people, who engage in ________ thought, and who then take _______ action.
What is disciplined?
Without deep understanding of how it links to a clear and coherent concept, technology accelerates
What is your own self-created demise?
Accumulates the momentum that creates breakthrough momentum
Who are those that stay true the fundamentals and maintain balance?
Executives embraced this
What is the Stockdale Paradox?
Gillette, Philip Morris, and Circuit City
What are three companies that exemplified the three intersecting circles of the Hedgehog Concept?
Technology is important after these two things.
What are discovering its Hedgehog Concept and reaching breakthrough?
___ __________ __________ were the consistency of the company, and our ability to project its philosophies throughout the whole organization.
What is "the primary factors"?
A secular sin
What is letting something remain good when it can become great?