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Willow Creek Leadership Summit Re-Cap (Jim Collins)
How the Mighty Fall – Jim Collins
- No company / church / nation / society / individual is immune – anyone can fall. – Many do, but not all.
- You can look strong on the inside, but be very sick on the outside.
- The mighty fall through many stages (5 STAGES)
- Stage 1 Hubris born of success
- Outrageous arrogance to neglect our 1st calling
- “Bad decision taken with good intentions are still bad decisions.”
- What makes a “great leader” – HUMILITY
- Stage 2 Undisciplined pursuit of more
- The mighty doesn’t fall because they slow way too down or allow the energy to drain… they fall because they over reach
- Patrick’s Law
- If you allow growth to exceed you ability to have “fantastic people” at all 4 seat – you will fall.
- Stage 3 Denial of risk and peril
- When a culture of denial has taken hold we’re in Stage 3
- The Stockdale Paradigm
- I never wavered in my faith that I would not get out.
- I never doubted that this was happening for a reason
- You must never confuse faith and facts
ú The ability to bring those together
ú Great teams came with both sides
- Stage 4 Grasping for salvation
- Looked for the silver bullet
- Greatness is never a single event or decision
- Stage 5 Capitulation to Irrelevance or death
- At this point most everything is gone – out of choices /options
- Why / how do companies continue despite all that happens
- Because the have a reason to endure.
- They cling to their core values above everything else.
- 10 To-Do’s
- 1.Do you diagnostics (jimcollins.com) free good to great tools
- 2. Count their blessings
- 3. What is your questions to statements ratio
- 4. Answer the question – how many seat, who are the right people, and how do we get there
- 5. How the mighty fall diagnostic
- 6. In your next meeting – inventory of the brutal fact
- 7. Have a stop doing list
- 8. Define results and show clicks on the fly wheel – mile markers – how can you demonstrate / celebrate
- 9. Double your reach to young people by changing your practices and not who you are.
- 10. Set a BHAG
- Peter Drucker “which is your favorite book –my next one”
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