Good to Great

Like other books that I have read, there is entirely too much text in the book, Good to Great to get the point across.

In summary though, this book is about getting to be from a decent company to a really good company. The methodology is about mindset… Leveraging the Fox and the Hedgehog. In short, the Fox is cunning and tries to pursue everything, where its all complicated and nothing is done well, vs the Hedgehog, that does one thing really well.

There is an old parable that says “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.“

The book goes on to talk about who you should have on your team and make sure they’re the right people and if they aren’t the right people, then hey, they’re still people but help them out or help them out; if you catch what I’m saying.

The lesson is that there is a flywheel effect. When you get enough momentum going, the gears turn on their own. Success will come but you have to consistently push your idea and get the people on your team to believe in the journey and the destination and then it keeps rolling.

Honestly, it wasn’t a that big of a book. Probably one of the easier reads that I had.