Good To Great

1.

10 points

All of the following traits aid in building a culture of discipline EXCEPT ______.

adhering to the ideas of the Hedgehog Concept

filling the environment with people who are willing to extremely fulfill their responsibilities

sticking to a disciplinarian as the center of your model

centering ideas of freedom and responsibility within a framework

2.

10 points

What is BHAG stand for?

the best happiest attainable goal

becoming huge and great

a big hairy audacious goal

a big hindrance against a goal

3.

10 points

It was more important to compare good to great companies not by what they have in common but to comparison companies and how they are _______.

distinguished

sustained

ranked

favored

4.

10 points

Of the two categories of people, the group that Jim Collins hypotheses to be larger is the group which has potential to evolve to Level 5 Leader

True

False

5.

10 points

To be a good-to-great company it is better to be a(n) ____

a. realist

c. pessimist

b. optimistc

d. all of the above

6.

10 points

People are not the most important assets but the ______ are

all people

new people

right people

people that have been there the longest

7.

10 points

What stage could be thought of as the turning point in a company from good to great?

Hedgehog Concept

First Who… Then What

Confronting the Brutal Facts

Culture of Discipline

8.

10 points

David Maxwell, Darwin Smil, and Colman Mockler all exemplified the following key trait:

Chose weaker successors to maintain what they had already established

Thought only of the company's current success and not about future generations

Had more concern for the company's success rather than for one’s own riches and personal recognition

Documented their achievements so the company’s success could be tracked back to their efforts

9.

10 points

What do the right people want more than almost anything else?

to make a lot of money

to use technology abundantly

to have a company that lasts for over a hundred years

to be a part of a winning team

10.

10 points

Technology itself is never a primary cause of _______ or _______.

goodness; greatness

peak; trough

easiness; hardness

greatness; decline