To reach greatness you must focus on consistent and long term personal performance
Great By Choice – Jim Collins
Do you wish that you could consistently and deliberately influence your own mood? To reach greatness you must focus on consistent and long term personal performanceIt seems nearly impossible to be in the perfect frame of mind each day, but this doesn’t mean that it is impossible.
In the book ‘Great by Choice’, author Jim Collins shares the story of two explorers, Amundsen and Scott, who led separate teams on an expedition race to the South Pole in 1911.
The journey there and back is roughly 1400 miles, which is not far shy of a round trip from Lands End to John O’Groats.
Which one succeeded? The team that took consistent action.
Your team needs to take EXACTLY the same approach.
Are they consistent?
To focus on consistent and long term personal performance
The new findings!
The study results were full of provocative surprises. Such as:
- The best leaders were not more risk-taking, more visionary, and more creative than the comparisons; they were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid.
- Innovation by itself turns out not to be the trump card in a chaotic and uncertain world; more important is the ability to scale innovation, to blend creativity with discipline.
- Following the belief that leading in a “fast world” always requires “fast decisions” and “fast action” is a good way to get killed.
- The great companies changed less in reaction to a radically changing world than the comparison companies.
“Collins and Hansen draw some interesting and counterintuitive conclusions from their research….far from a dry work of social science. Mr Collins has a way with words, not least with metaphor.”
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