Running head: Good to Great Book Review | In partial fulfillment for the requirement for DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND COUNSELING BY TIFFANY TURNER-BANKS 11/12/2011 Jim Collins and his research team have done a wonderful job identifying what it takes for a company to go from good to great. I found this book extremely interesting and would like to share several of my thoughts. The study looks at companies that appeared on the Fortune 500 from the years of 1965 to
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delicate branches of the tree that sprouted from the constantly expanding lineage of the Mammalian family‚ the hedgehog and the armadillo are also separated by millions of years of evolution. The choice in animals for the poems did not fall under the laws of natural selection‚ they were hand selected to represent the separate‚ yet connected underlying messages. Paul Muldoon‚ author of “Hedgehog”‚ and Yusef Komunyakaa‚ author of “Night of the Armadillo”‚ both declare society as a negative parasitic being
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The book Good to Great have seven (7) main concepts for leaders to being their organization or business from the level of good to a level of great. These concepts can be used in any industry and when applied correctly can help organizations standout from the rest when they are ready to move past just being good at what they do. The first principle is Level 5 (five) Leadership: It takes a leader who is modest‚ willful‚ humble and fearless to lead an organization from good to great. A Level 5 (five)
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their competitors. Jim Collins and his research teach come to conclude that some of the main factors‚ which I will summarize in detail later own are the following: Level 5 Leadership‚ First Who‚ Then What‚ Confront the Brutal Facts‚ The Hedge Hog Concept‚ and Technological Advancement. Beginning with Level 5 Leaders‚ Collins explains how a good company begins from the top-down. In order for a good company to succeed‚ there needs to be driven people at the top who are not only smart (though‚ they
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leaders followed good-to-great framework. The only difference is that they were entrepreneurs in small business‚ as opposed to CEO’s. 2. Apply Good to Great concepts to sustain results‚ as a start up or an established organization and then apply findings in Built to Last to go from great results to an enduring company. 3. Apply the central concept from Built to Last‚ you will make the shift from a company with sustained great results to an enduring great company of iconic stature. Discover your core
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author says that sometimes you have to do more of the same‚ and when it comes to leaders of a company that’s exactly what you have to do. The author emphasizes a strategy that’s been repeated over and over in the course of our classes and this is the concept of choosing successors to lead businesses. Excellence is a habit and all leaders must exemplify this trait in order to continuously lead company to greater heights. This is the reason why there’s a premium to succession planning‚ and this is also
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In his famous essay “ The Hedgehog and the Fox‚” Isaiah Berlin/>/> divided the world into two groups‚ based on an ancient Greek proverb‚ which pitted the two natural enemies against each other. Foxes pursue many ends at the same time and see the world in all its complexity; they are scattered or diffused‚ moving on many levels‚ never integrating their thinking into one overall concept or unifying vision. Hedgehogs‚ on the other hand‚ simplify a complex world into a single idea (mission) that
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Today’ lesson was about the differences between counseling skills and counseling; Person centred approach‚ core conditions and self concept. I learned that counseling is a process carried out by qualified counselor‚ ruled by BACP framework for Good Practice in Counseling and Psychotherapy that using counseling skills helps the client to improve how they feel or facilitates them to work through emotional‚ behavioral problems. In my opinion counseling is the act of facilitating the client to see
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development: a comparison study to investigate developmental sequences using semi-structured self concept interviews. ABSTRACT This study examines the view that self-awareness gradually develops with a shift from physical to psychological characteristics whilst the locus of self-knowledge progressively transfers from others to the self. Previous research implementing semi-structured self concept interviews to investigate self descriptions amongst young children of various age groups supported
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Conformity to the French Class System in The Elegance of the Hedgehog Oppression comes in many forms‚ from oppression of women to people simply feeling out of place due to society’s expectations of them. While the latter is inferior as a political issue‚ it leading to the contemplation of suicide is a serious matter. The awareness of societies expectations‚ primarily in terms of social class‚ is prominent in the novel The Elegance Of The Hedgehog. Consciousness of social hierarchy makes the life of
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