True or False. Is the most effective way for a company to "Be there first, be there fast, build market share- no matter how expensive- you win."
False
100
What effective business technique did Walgreens use.
Crawl. Walk. Run.
100
True or False. Great companies never began their transitions from good-to-great with pioneering technology.
True
100
What types of technologies are related to the Hedgehog concept.
Relevant
200
What type of failure causes a mediocre company? A. Management Failure or B. Technology Failure
A. Management Failure
200
What is the name of the cycle the explains how a company will be effected when it enters a new point of a technology trend?
The Hype Cycle
200
What is a heavy revolving wheel in a machine that is used to increase the machine's momentum and thereby provide greater stability or a reserve of available power during interruptions in the delivery of power to the machine?
A Fly Wheel
200
True or False. According to the fly wheel some pushes may have been bigger than others, but any single heave – no matter how large – reflects a small function of the entire cumulative effect upon the flywheel.
True
200
When relevant technologies are used correctly, what do they become?
An accelerator of momentum
300
Things that do not just happen follow what method?
The Build Up Breakthrough method
300
(Short- term or Long-term) circumstances must be managed, but should but supersede (Short-term or Long-term) circumstances.
Short-term...Long- term
300
What are the two key aspects of good to great companies mentioned in chapter 8.
Patience and Discipline
300
What does the statement "harness the flywheel" mean?
Manage short-term pressures.
300
What two good to great companies effectively managed Wall Street during their buildup-breakthrough years.
Fannie Mae and Abbott
400
What two companies focused on accumulating results and
practicing time-honored discipline
Fannie Mae and Abbott
400
True or False. You should believe that buying a new company will not guarantee long term success for the parent company.
False
400
Fill in the Blank. Tremendous power exists in the fact of continued improvement and delivery of _____.
Results
400
This statement is the result of what? “If we keep pushing on this thing, there’s no reason we can’t accomplish X.”
The Fly Wheel
400
Fill in the blank. With _______, goals do not necessarily need to be communicated – people become motivated to accomplish goals based on the momentum of the flywheel on their own.
The Fly Wheel
500
What four key attributes should good to great companies have?
Commitment. Alignment. Motivation. Change
500
Fill in the blank. The context of the overall concept that will work is comprised of tangible and ___________ __________.
incremental accomplishments
500
Fill in the blank. The flywheel exhibits ______ unity behind a simple plan or work towards a goal.
Selfless
500
CEOs for what company kept restructuring the aim of the company.
Warner-Lambert
500
Which concept— “disciplined action, following from disciplined people who exercise disciplined thought”