Good to Great-Reading Assignment Mr. Engel Peer Leadership
Please answer these questions on you own paper

1. Explain how Good is the Enemy of Great p. 1
2. What is level 5 Leadership p.12
3. What is First Who? P.13
4. What is “Confront the Brutal facts p.13
5. What is the Hedgehog Concept? P.13
6. What is a culture of discipline? P.13
7. What are technology accelerators? P.13
8. What are the flywheel and the doom loop? P.13
9. Why is Harry Truman’s quote so appropriate for Level 5 leadership? P.17
10. Describe the level 5 Executive? P.20
11. Describe Darwin Smith and why was he a classic example of level 5 leadership? P.21
12. What is the formula for level 5 leadership? P.22
13. What president was a level 5 leader? P.22
14. Who or what do the level 5 leaders have ambition for first and foremost? P.25
15. What were the comparison leaders more concerned with and why did the leaders that followed them fail? P.26
16. What is the biggest dog syndrome? P.26
17. How do level 5 leaders demonstrate compelling modesty? P.27
18. What words are constantly used to describe level 5 leaders? P.27
19. The good to great leaders never wanted to become what?????? P.28
20. Why was Lee Iacocca not considered a level 5 leader? P.29
21. What are level 5 leaders fanatically driven to do? P.30
22. What company did Allan Wurtzel run? P.33
23. How did he describe himself? What comparison did he use? P.33
24. When do level 5 leaders “look out the window”? p.35
25. When do level 5 leaders “look in the mirror”? p.35
26. What id the comparison leaders do? P.35
27. What is the author’s hypothesis about how to become a level 5 leader? P.36
28. What are the two categories according to his hypothesis? P.36-37
29. What is the irony of why so many level 5 leaders are overlooked for promotions? P.36
30. What kind of leadership did every good to great company have? P.39
31. What is the paradoxical mix that level 5 leaders have? P.39
32. How do level 5 leaders set up their successors? P.39
33. What do level 5 leaders display? P.39
34. What are level 5 leaders resolved to do? P.39
35. What is the difference between the celebrity leaders and the level 5 leader? P.39
36. Does the author believe that there are many potential level 5 leaders all around us? P.39
37. Are celebrity leaders considered good to great leaders? P.40
38. What do level 5 leaders attribute much of their success to? P.40
39. How did the author discover the idea about level 5 leadership? Is there scientific data to support his idea? P.40
40. Do you think you have the potential to become a level 5 leader?
Good To Great pt 2-Get the Right People on the Bus

41. What is Chapter 3 called? P.41
42. What did Collins expect to find when he started his research? P.41
43. What did the good to great leaders figure out first? P.41
44. What did they say in essence? P.41
45. What was the first of the simple truths…What do you begin with? P.42
46. What was the 2nd truth about motivation? P.42
47. What was the truth about the wrong people? P.42
48. What is the genius with a thousand helpers model p.45-46
49. What is the difference between first who and first what? P.47
50. What is the difference between then what and then who? P.47
51. Explain “it’s who you pay not how you pay them”?. P.49
52. What is the difference between rigorous and ruthless? P.53
53. What is the first practical discipline to be rigorous? P.54
54. What did the good to great leaders understand to be the ultimate throttle? P.54
55. What was rigorous practical discipline number 2? P.56
56. What was the rigorous practical discipline number 3? P.58
57. What is an important corollary to this discipline? P.59
58. What was Colman Mockler so good at assembling? P.61
59. How does George Weissman describe his time at Phillip Morris? P.61
60. What did members of good to great companies become P. 62
61. How did good to great leaders begin the transformation? P.63
62. What is the key point of this chapter? P.63
63. What was the comparison companies model? P.63
64. What did good to great management teams consist of? P.63
65. What was the purpose of compensation for good to great companies? P.64
66. What is the old adage? P.64
67. How is the old adage wrong? P.64
Good to Great 3 Peer Leadership Mr. Engel
Confront the brutal facts

68. What does “facts are better than dreams” mean- according to Churchill? p.73
69 What does it mean to have the opportunity to have your say? P.74
70. Explain what is means to lead with questions instead of with answers?p.74
71. When Alan Wurtzel was asked where he would take the company, what did he say? P.74
72. What did he begin with? P.74
73. What approach did he use with his executive team? P.75
74. What is the difference between a question about compliance and a question about understanding? P.75
75. What does it mean to engage in dialogue not debate? P.75
76. What does it mean to conduct an autopsy without blame? P.77
77. What is a red flag mechanism? P.78
78. Who was Jim Stockdale? P.83
79. What was the Hanoi Hilton? P.83
80. What international conflict does article refer to? P.83
81. How long was he imprisoned? P.83
82. How many times was he tortured? P.83
83. Why did he beat himself with a stool? P.84
84. What burden did he shoulder? P.84
85. How did he exchange secret information with his wife? P.84
86. How did help his men deal with torture/ what did he create? P.84
87. What kind of communication system did he set up? P.84
88. How did his men honor him after 3 years? P.84
89. What was the name of the book that Stockdale and his wife wrote? P.84
90. How did the author react emotionally to the book?
91. How did Stockdale respond to the question, “How did you deal with it?” p.85
92. Who didn’t make it out according to Stockdale? P.85
93. Why didn’t the optimists make it out? P.85
94. What was the very important lesson that Stockdale emphasized? P.85
95. What is the final quote of the story admonishing the optimists? P.85
96. Sum up the Stockdale paradox in one sentence….p.85
97. Does the author feel that life is fair? P.85
98. What separated people according to what the author learned from Stockdale? P.86-87..
99. What is the Stockdale paradox a signature of according to the author? P.86
100. How did the good to great companies begin the process of finding their path to greatness? P.88
101. What is a primary task for taking a company from good to great? P.88
102. What 4 practices lead to the truth being heard?
103. How did the good to great companies hit the reality of their situation?
104. Why can charisma be a liability? P.89
105. How do you know you have the right people? P.89
106. What is one way to de-motivate people? P.89

Good to Great 4 Peer Leadership-Mr. Engel

The Hedgehog and the Fox

107. Who wrote the famous essay about the Hedgehog and the Fox? P.90
108. How did he divide the world? P.90
109. What does the fox know? P.90
110 What did the hedgehog know? P.90
111. Describe the fox? P.90
112. Describe the hedgehog? P.90
113. What does think as he leaps out against the hedgehog? P.91
114. What does the hedgehog do when sensing danger? P.91
115. Why does the fox retreat? P.91
116. What 2 groups did he divide people into? P.91
117. How does he describe the complex fox? 91
118. How do hedgehogs organize the world? p.91
119. What does the hedgehog reduce all of the world’s challenges to? P.91
120. Who are some hedgehogs according to Marvin Bressler? P.91
121. What do they do with a complex world? P.91
122. Are hedgehogs stupid?
123. What are some “simple” great historical hedgehog ideas?p.91
124. What category were good to great leaders? P.92
125. What category were the comparison companies? 92
126. What was the Walgreens concept? P.92
127. What is the first of the three circles? P.95
128. What is the 2nd of the three circles? P.95
129. What is the 3rd of the three circles?
130. What is the difference between wanting to be the best at something and knowing what you can be the best at? P.98
131. What is the curse of competence? P.100
132. What could Walgreens be the best in the world at? P.103
133. What does it mean to “drive your economic engine”? p.104
134. What does it mean to understand your passion? P.109
135. What are the three questions we should ask ourselves? P.111
136. what is an autopsy guided by the three circles? P.114
137. What does going from good to great require? P.118
138. What is the difference between want and can be the best at? P.118
139. How were god to great companies more like hedgehogs? P.119
140. How long did it take on the average to get a hedgehog concept? P.119