Moving Schools from Good to Great

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• Good to Great Schools

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Moving Schools from Good to Great

• Good
• is the enemy of
• Great.

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• Greatness is a matter of conscious choice.

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• First
• who
• and then
• what.

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• That good is the enemy of great is not an
  organizational problem its a human problem.

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• A fundamental element of a visionary
  organization is a core ideology a set of core
  values and purpose which guide and inspire
  people throughout the organization.

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• You must maintain unwavering faith that you
  can prevail, regardless of the difficulties, AND
  at the same time face the brutal facts.

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• Level 5 Leaders have enormous ambition but
  their ambition is first and foremost for the
  organization, not themselves.

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• Level 5 Leaders
• See leadership as a function and not a role
• Build a shared vision for the organization
• Place the organizations goals ahead of
  personal goals.

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• Great organizations continually remind
  themselves of the crucial distinction between
  core and non-core values, between what should
  never change and what should be open for change,
  between what is truly sacred and what is not.

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• Core values are the organizations essential
  and enduring tenets, not to be compromised for
  short-term expediency.

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• High profile charismatic leaders are fine, but
  not required for great organizations.

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• The only way to deliver the people who are
  achieving is not to burden them with the people
  who are not achieving.

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• Put your best people on your biggest
  opportunities, not your biggest problems.

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• Good to Great organizations continually refine
  the path to greatness with the brutal facts of
  reality .

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• Simplify a complex world into a single
  organizing idea, a basic principle or concept
  that unifies and guides everything.

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• Hedgehog Concept
• Good to Great organizations are like hedgehogs
  simple creatures that know one big thing and
  stick to it.

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• People dont work day-to-day in the big
  picture. They work in the nitty - gritty
  details of the business.
• Not that the big picture is irrelevant, but
  its the little things that send powerful signals
  about the organization.

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• Disciplined People
• Disciplined Thought
• Disciplined Action

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• Disciplined action without disciplined people
  is impossible to sustain, and disciplined action
  without disciplined thought is a recipe for
  disaster.

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• Hedgehog Concept
• The key is to understand what your
  organization can be best at and equally important
  what it cannot be best at not what it wants to
  be best at.

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• Hedgehog Concept
• The Hedgehog Concept is not a goal its an
  understanding.

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• No matter how dramatic the end result, the
  good-to-great transformations never happened in
  one fell swoop...

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• Visionary organizations focus primarily on
  beating bettering themselves.

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• Level 5 Leaders
• Embody a mix of personal humility and
  personal will
• Display workmanlike diligence more plow
  horse than show horse.

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• Great organizations focus on clock building
  not time telling.

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• Level 5 Leaders dont preach about how they
  value change and constant improvement,
• they institute organizational mechanisms to
  stimulate change and improvement.

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• The very act of stating a core ideology
  influences behavior toward consistency with the
  ideology.

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• Great organizations translate their core
  values and ideologies into tangible mechanisms
• that are aligned with the values.

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• Sustainable transformations follow a
  predictable pattern of buildup and breakthrough.

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• We have to shift from seeing the organization
  (school) as a vehicle for the products
  (children), to seeing the products (children) as
  a vehicle for the organization (school).
  

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• The critical question asked by great
  organizations is not, How are we doing? The
  critical question for great organizations is,
  How can we do better tomorrow than we did
  today? This question becomes a way of life, a
  habit of the mind.

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• If we want to move schools from GOOD to
  GREAT, we need to create an environment of TRUST
  and MORAL PURPOSE.
• - Michael Fullen
• The Moral Imperative of School Leadership