{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"Stephen Braunius","home_page_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org","feed_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/json/","description":"<p>Seek | Do | Share</p><p>I have always loved to learn new things and put that knowledge to use. 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It is a life choice”</li>\n<li><strong>(2)</strong> Will you settle for being a good leader or will you be a great leader? - “We are going to need great leadership through all sectors” since all sectors are networked</li>\n<li>3 key areas: - Know what must be done (and be right most of the time).</li>\n<li>It’s about getting people to want to do what needs to be done.</li>\n<li>It is not a science. It is an art.</li>\n<li>Most great leaders started as good leaders and grew</li>\n<li>“Will you scale your leadership with the organization?”</li>\n<li><strong>(3)</strong> How can you reframe failure as Growth in pursuit of a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal)? - a BHAG is something that you are not sure you can actually accomplish</li>\n<li>“I am not a failure. I am growing.”</li>\n<li>Growth is the other side of the coin from Success.</li>\n<li><strong>(4)</strong> How can you succeed by helping others succeed? - “we succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed”</li>\n<li>“let me help you”</li>\n<li>This creates an incredible idea of “You are never alone”</li>\n<li>Triangle (service, success, growth) - build a culture that you are willing to sacrifice for with BHAGs and communal success in order to have the idea that we only succeed by helping each other</li>\n<li><strong>(5)</strong> Have you found your hedgehog – your personal hedgehog? - living in the intersection of passion, what I am made for, and economic engine to make a living and work toward my BHAGS</li>\n<li>“True creators stay in the game”</li>\n<li>“If you see life as a series of hands, and play every hand to the best of your ability it leads to a powerful effect.”</li>\n<li>“You have to be in your hedgehog”</li>\n<li>“Real creative impact accelerates, if you choose, after 50”</li>\n<li><strong>(6)</strong> Will you build your unit – your minibus – into a pocket of greatness? - “Focus on your unit. Not your career.”</li>\n<li>“Be a first who leader. Not a first what leader.”</li>\n<li>“Be rigorous, not ruthless, of your hiring decisions.”</li>\n<li>“Life is people.”</li>\n<li>The greatest leaders know how to make a distinctive impact on people</li>\n<li><strong>(7)</strong> How will you change the lives of others? - “Life is people.”</li>\n</ul><p><em>Originally published on stephen.braunius.org</em></p>","content_text":"Global Leadership Summit 2015\n\nSession 2a\n\nJim Collins, Seven Questions: Beyond Good to Great\n\n“we are all young leaders”\n\n“questions are better than answers”\n\n(1) What cause do you serve with level 5 ambition? - “if you have a charismatic cause you do not need to be a charismatic leader”\n\nLevel 5 leaders have a unique combination of personal humility with an abominable will\n\nleading with service and ambition\n\nlevel 5 leaders inspire people to follow the cause\n\n“Commitment to service is not a sector choice. It is a life choice”\n\n(2) Will you settle for being a good leader or will you be a great leader? - “We are going to need great leadership through all sectors” since all sectors are networked\n\n3 key areas: - Know what must be done (and be right most of the time).\n\nIt’s about getting people to want to do what needs to be done.\n\nIt is not a science. It is an art.\n\nMost great leaders started as good leaders and grew\n\n“Will you scale your leadership with the organization?”\n\n(3) How can you reframe failure as Growth in pursuit of a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal)? - a BHAG is something that you are not sure you can actually accomplish\n\n“I am not a failure. I am growing.”\n\nGrowth is the other side of the coin from Success.\n\n(4) How can you succeed by helping others succeed? - “we succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed”\n\n“let me help you”\n\nThis creates an incredible idea of “You are never alone”\n\nTriangle (service, success, growth) - build a culture that you are willing to sacrifice for with BHAGs and communal success in order to have the idea that we only succeed by helping each other\n\n(5) Have you found your hedgehog – your personal hedgehog? - living in the intersection of passion, what I am made for, and economic engine to make a living and work toward my BHAGS\n\n“True creators stay in the game”\n\n“If you see life as a series of hands, and play every hand to the best of your ability it leads to a powerful effect.”\n\n“You have to be in your hedgehog”\n\n“Real creative impact accelerates, if you choose, after 50”\n\n(6) Will you build your unit – your minibus – into a pocket of greatness? - “Focus on your unit. Not your career.”\n\n“Be a first who leader. Not a first what leader.”\n\n“Be rigorous, not ruthless, of your hiring decisions.”\n\n“Life is people.”\n\nThe greatest leaders know how to make a distinctive impact on people\n\n(7) How will you change the lives of others? - “Life is people.”\n\nOriginally published on stephen.braunius.org","date_published":"2015-08-06T16:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-28T20:32:48.751Z","_microfeed":{"slug":"gls15-session-2a-jim-collins","authors":[{"name":"Stephen Braunius","type":"Person"}],"web_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/i/gls15-session-2a-jim-collins/","json_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/i/yzPzSXgaBhk/json/","rss_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/i/yzPzSXgaBhk/rss/","guid":"http://stephen.braunius.org/gls15-session-2a-jim-collins/","status":"published","date_published_short":"Thu Aug 06 2015","date_published_ms":1438876800000}}],"_microfeed":{"publisher":{"name":"Stephen Braunius","type":"Person","url":"https://stephen.braunius.org"},"authors":[{"name":"Stephen Braunius","type":"Person"}],"microfeed_version":"1.0.13","base_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org","categories":[],"subscribe_methods":[{"name":"RSS","type":"rss","url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/rss/","image":"https://stephen.braunius.org/assets/brands/subscribe/rss.png","enabled":true,"editable":false,"id":"3ruTYsoZVaf"},{"name":"JSON","type":"json","url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/json/","image":"https://stephen.braunius.org/assets/brands/subscribe/json.png","enabled":true,"editable":false,"id":"5nhVQKje4_K"}],"description_text":"Seek | Do | Share\nI have always loved to learn new things and put that knowledge to use. 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