Jim Collins Audio Clips

The 10 Greatest CEOs

Aligning Your Organization with Its Vision

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

Autopsies without Blame

Being Charismatic and Wrong Is a Bad Combination

The Bell Curve V. the Double Hump

Building Mechanisms Drives Progress

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

Can a Hedgehog Be a Program?

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

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

A Conversation with a Church Leader About the Resource Engine

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

Creating a Pocket of Greatness

"Dialogue and Debate, Not Consensus"

The DNA of Enduring Greatness Lies in the "AND"

Do You Suffer the Curse of Competence?

The Essence of Level 5 as Demonstrated by Abraham Lincoln

Even the Great Make Hiring Mistakes

"First Who" Is Not Just a Business Concept

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

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

The Fundamental Inputs to Create Superior Performance

Funding: Time-Telling Vs. Clock-Building

A Funny Thing Happens Around Level 5 Leaders

GE and the Process Hedgehog

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

Getting People Off the Bus

Getting the Right People in the Right Seats over Time

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

Getting Your Core Values Right

Good Is the Enemy of Great

Greatness Is a Matter of Conscious Choice and Discipline

Harnessing the Flywheel

How Companies Go from Good to Great to Irrelevant

How Do You Do "Stop Doing?"

How to Find Your Company's Three Circles

How to Find Your Personal Hedgehog Concept

A Hypothesis: Executive and Legislative Leadership

I Am a Recovering Leadership Atheist

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

The Importance of Distinguishing Inputs from Outputs

The Inverse Relationship of Leadership and Power

Is Level 5 Learnable?

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

Lack of Resources Is No Excuse for Lack of Rigor

The Level 5 Evolution

Managing Expectations Before Breakthrough

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

Money Is a Commodity; Talent Is Not