Jim Collins Audio Clips: Recent Episodes

Jim Collins

Selections from lectures by Jim Collins

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Why Built to Last Is the Wrong Title

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Lack of Resources Is No Excuse for Lack of Rigor

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Managing Expectations Before Breakthrough

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"The Moment You Begin to Think of Yourself as Great, You've Lost It"

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Money Is a Commodity; Talent Is Not

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How to Find Your Company's Three Circles

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The 10 Greatest CEOs

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Thinking About Your Economic Denominator

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Being Charismatic and Wrong Is a Bad Combination

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"First Who, the Hedgehog Concept, and Your Personal Trajectory"

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The Five Key Things to Consider When Looking for the Right People

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The Fundamental Inputs to Create Superior Performance

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Funding: Time-Telling Vs. Clock-Building

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GE and the Process Hedgehog

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Is Level 5 Learnable?

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The Power of the Comparison Analysis

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The Social Sectors' Compelling Advantage: The Desperate Craving for Meaning in Our Lives

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The Solution Is Not to Be More Like a Business

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The Stockdale Paradox

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The Essence of Level 5 as Demonstrated by Abraham Lincoln

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Can a Hedgehog Be a Program?

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Can My Hedgehog Concept Help Provide Satisfaction with My Current Work?

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It Really Matters that You Have Core Values. It Really Doesn't Matter What They Are!

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The Path to the Book Good to Great Began with a Question

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Revolution at Egg...

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A Hypothesis: Executive and Legislative Leadership

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How Companies Go from Good to Great to Irrelevant

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How to Find Your Personal Hedgehog Concept

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I Am a Recovering Leadership Atheist

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Even the Great Make Hiring Mistakes

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"First Who" Is Not Just a Business Concept

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Can You Be a Level 5 Leader without a Hedgehog Concept?

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The Role of Strategic Planning as a Mechanism for Disciplined Thought

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Do You Suffer the Curse of Competence?

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Good Is the Enemy of Great

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Building Mechanisms Drives Progress

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The Council as a Mechanism to Understand the Inflection Points of Change

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"Dialogue and Debate, Not Consensus"

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The Bell Curve V. the Double Hump

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Building Vision — the Physics and Engineering Principles of Building Great Companies

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Getting People Off the Bus

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Getting the Right People in the Right Seats over Time

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Greatness Is a Matter of Conscious Choice and Discipline

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Getting the Right People on the Bus - And the Wrong People Off the Bus - In a Family Business

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A Funny Thing Happens Around Level 5 Leaders

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Harnessing the Flywheel

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"If We Only Have Great Companies, We Will Merely Have a Prosperous Society - Not a Great One"

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The Importance of Distinguishing Inputs from Outputs

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The Way You Confront the Brutal Facts Can Mean the Difference Between Good and Great

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What About Companies that Stumble?

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What About Luck?

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The Pursuit of Greatness Is a Journey that Never Ends

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The Inverse Relationship of Leadership and Power

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The Story of Starbucks' Journey to Find its BHAG

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The Three Circles and the Resource Engine

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Trying to Motivate People is a Waste of Time

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What Is Important About a Personal Council or Board of Directors?

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Why You Can't Get a Yellow Shirt

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Work-Life Balance and the Level 5 Leader

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The Wrong People Can't Be Motivated to Do the Right Thing

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You Don't Need to Be Big to Be Great

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The Level 5 Evolution

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Creating a Pocket of Greatness

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"Getting Back to Values, and Other Lessons from IBM"

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How Do You Do "Stop Doing?"

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A Conversation with a Church Leader About the Resource Engine

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Aligning Your Organization with Its Vision

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Are the Great Companies from the Research Great Places to Work? It Depends

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Autopsies without Blame

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The DNA of Enduring Greatness Lies in the "AND"

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Getting Your Core Values Right