According Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in Build to Last, the “tyranny of the OR” leads businesses to feel that they can only choose one option or the other, but not both, such as:
Change OR stability,
Conservative OR bold,
Low cost OR high quality,
Creative autonomy OR consistency and control,
Invest in future OR do well in short-term,
Make progress […]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by admin
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In Built to Last, authors Jim Collins and Jerry Porras talk about a hypothetical person who could look at the sun or stars and tell the exact time down to the second. That person would be an amazing “time teller”. However, wouldn’t it be much more amazing if that person created a clock which could […]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by admin
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In Built to Last, the authors identified “Visionary” companies which met very rigorous standards of sustained greatness. The authors did not find any specific ideological content as being essential in these visionary companies. However, the authors did find that it was essential that the companies have a core ideology of some sort, and […]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by admin
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In preparation to write the book Built to Last, authors Jim Collins and Jerry Porras and a team at Stanford University researched highly successful (“visionary”) and less successful companies for six years. Their research debunked many myths commonly held in the business world. The following are some of the myths and findings that I found […]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by admin
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On April 15, 1815, the Tambora volcano in Indonesia erupted with the largest observed volcanic eruption in history. The explosion was heard 1,200 miles away and the death toll reached more than 71,000 people. 1816 was called the Year Without a Summer because of the resulting global climate abnormalities. As a […]
Posted on April 7th, 2008 by admin
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A few months ago, the More Good Foundation built the GordonHinckley.com website. As I helped research content for that site, I read the following quote in Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley which stood out to me:
There is a loneliness in all aspects of leadership. . . It was ever thus. The price of […]
Posted on April 6th, 2008 by admin
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When you want to buy a new car, do you go to the auto manufacturers’ websites (i.e. Ford.com or Chevrolet.com) to find out which vehicle is the best, or would you prefer to go to a 3rd-party auto website where you could read hundreds of car reviews and ratings by vehicle owners? Which information […]
Posted on April 6th, 2008 by admin
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When I was very young, a visiting leader came to our church to divide one “stake” (group of congregations), into two stakes. This man was an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS Church) and was ordained to be a “special witness of Jesus Christ”. In my childish naivety, […]
Posted on April 5th, 2008 by admin
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Last year I took an insightful MBA marketing class from Dr. Gary Rhodes and Dr. Michael Swenson. The concept which stood out the most to me in their course was that we should “sell to the swing group through the eyes of the love group.”
When Dr. Rhodes and Dr. Swenson taught this principle, they […]
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by admin
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I have implemented a new Subscribe feature which allows readers of this blog to subscribe for free and be emailed when new posts are added.
This new feature is powered by FeedBurner and only took a few minutes to implement. Not only does this service send my subscribers updates via email, but it also provides […]
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by admin
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