Jim Collins

Author, Good to Great

“Greatness is a disciplined accumulation: the Flywheel, Level 5 Leadership, and the Hedgehog Concept.”

The one idea

Greatness is a disciplined accumulation.

Ideas in the Tracker

Momentum is a thousand consistent pushes in one direction, not a single heroic shove.

Illustrated by these cases

A flywheel compounds when you feed it: lower prices → more customers → more sellers → lower costs → lower prices.

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