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Where To Put Your Best Players

Posted on December 08, 2010 by Ronald T. Brown, Ph.D.

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In his best selling book “Good to Great”, Jim Collins discusses a powerful leadership principle:

“Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems.”

Collins notes that:

“Many leaders fail to grasp that managing their problems will only make them good, whereas building upon new opportunities is the way to become great.”

Often leaders are so overwhelmed by the current problems they face - they end up putting their best people on those issues. The result is that their mediocre personnel (those who are left) get assigned the new opportunities. This is a big mistake - a mistake that results in new opportunities never being fully developed and realized - trapping the organization in a onging state of mediocrity.

Put you best people on your biggest opportunities!

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