One last Collins post for the day...
Okay, so I’m a little late to the Jim Collins party…a number of my blogging colleagues have already mentioned key points he conveyed in Sunday morning’s general session so I won’t repeat those. There is, though, one point he made that resonated with me…and perhaps it seems an obvious one. However, depending on your organization, there could be big implications.
“Growth is a cumulative process,” Collins said, “a constant process of asking how we can do better tomorrow.”
What does it mean to do that? Do we have a process in place, and is it part of our organizational DNA? If we don’t and it isn’t, what would it take to put it there? If we look at every program, product, and service as a learning lab for the next one, what shift in perspective might it give us to look at the possibilities instead of what didn’t work?
I greatly enjoyed hearing Jim Collins…I was a little disappointed, though, that he didn’t talk about how the “7 Measures” project results compared to the “Good to Great” findings. What differences and similarities were there, and why? What are his perspectives on how the association community might capitalize on its strengths?
Hopefully, we’ll read about that in the book.