On 2024-09-20 16:49, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:32:20 -0700
>
>> 3) I learned about the Hedgehog concept at almost 50. I wish I would
>> have learned about it earlier.
>
> If you're like me and didn't know what the Hedgehog concept is, see
> this:
>
> https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/the-hedgehog-concept.html
>
> On the Venn diagram, "best in the world" is a gross oversimplification.
> I *might* be the best in the world at describing the mindset and
> process of troubleshooting, but there are probably 100 competitors
> right there up with me. I might have even taught some of them. I'm
> nowhere near the world's best at anything else, and have a hunch few
> other people are the world's best at anything. I wish he'd said "damn
> good" instead of "best in the world".
There are two Hedgehog concepts. One for business and one that is
personal.
In business he talks about being the best in the world. When applying
the personal Hedgehog, it is not how good you are it is what you were
created to do. As example in H.S. I was not very good at sports,
however I had a knack for working on Muscle cars. We are talking
natural talent. What you are inherently gifted to do.
There is 3 criteria 1) what where you created to do, 2) what are you
deeply passion about, and 3) what drives your economic engine. In the
Venn diagram each would be in a circle and the intersection is your
Personal Hedgehog. When you find something that meets all three you
have a winner. And maybe we all have more than one.
His book, "Good to Great", is about business.
>
> Other than that, the concept is right on target. I'll bet Jim Collins'
> book tells you *how* to find such a profession, because unlike the
> concept itself, how to achieve the concept isn't at all obvious.
>
> True story: I loved bicycles, especially Schwinn bicycles, riding
> bicyles, all things bicycles, and thought bicycles were the key to
> improving the world. In a lot of ways, I still do. Anyway, in 1974
> after graduating college, I called the Schwinn company, telling them
> about my passion for bicycles and my engineering degree. The guy on the
> phone, probably some underpaid HR dweeb, said "you sound like a jobless
> BSEE who's desperate".
>
> Schwinn really blew it. I would have been a real asset to them.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
>
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