jeffturley

If you have never read the books "Good to Great" or "Built to Last" I would highly recommend them. For your personal life, family, management, and business these books have an amazing amount of wisdom to be applied across many disciplines.  Here are five perspectives from "Good to Great."

Business/Personal

"Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just easy to settle for a good life."

Team Building

"The geniuses seldom build great management teams, for the simple reason that they don't need one, and often don't want one.  If you are a genius, you don't need a Wells Fargo-caliber of managment team..."  For this reason I have often felt the smartest people don't make the strongest leaders.

Leadership/Family

"It is equally about ferocious resolve, an almost stoic determination to do whatever needs to be done to make the company great." Insert any word for company... family, spiritual life, marriage, management, fatherhood.

Culture

"In a sense, much of this book is about creating a culture of discipline.  It all starts with disciplined people."

Management

"Create a culture where truth can be heard" -4 Keys

1. Lead with questions not answers

2. Engage in dialogue and debate, not coercion

3. Conduct autopsies, without blame

4. Build red flag mechanisms that turn information into information that cann be ignored

* italics mine