Leadership Summit | Jim Collins

Here are the highlights from the Leadership Summit session with Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and other leadership books.

• “Good is the enemy of great.”
• “You can be sick on the inside and still look strong on the outside.”
• “You can be going through the first three stages of decline while still looking healthy on the outside.”
• “Bad decisions taken with good intentions are still bad decisions.”
• Great leaders = “it’s not about them” + “they never give up”
• “The signature that separated the Level 5 leader from the Level 4 leader was their humility.”
• “Do we have all of our key seats filled with fantastic people? If the answer is no, we must resist growth until that happens.”
• “Greatness is not a singular event. Greatness is a cumulative process.”
• on success… “If it’s just money, it’s not enough.”
• “The signature of mediocrity is not the inability to change, it’s chronic inconsistency.”
• “You have to be willing to change.”
• “There is a core that has to be held tight, but on the other hand we have to have progress.”
• “Confront the brutal facts of where you can do better.”
• “What is your questions to statements ratio and can you double it in the next year?”
• “Reach young people by changing your practices and not your core values.”

By the way, here are my reading highlights from Jim’s most recent book, How the Mighty Fall.