C. Travis Sutton - Moving Schools from Good to Great! - for an East Tennessee State University/ELPA presentation (ADMN-0001-592 - North East Cohort '093) Based on the book: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t Good To GREAT! Author: Jim Collins

1. Moving from Good to Great! C. Travis Sutton ADMN-0001-592 - North East Cohort '093 East Tennessee State University January 8, 2011 Based on the book: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t Good To GREAT by Jim Collins

2. Good to Great is a business approach.

3. The Challenge : There were companies that are NOT necessarily born with great business DNA as pointed out in Jim Collins’s prior book, Built to Last . The challenge is how does “good” or mediocre companies and even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?

4. The Study What are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great! Over 5 years….Over 28 companies The research team compared and contrasted good-to-great companies to other companies that failed to make the leap from good-to-great. The study included such companies as Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, Merck, etc.

6. Applying Jim Collins’s findings to School Leadership Hopefully, we can utilize successes from companies, with schools, other organizations and/or life in general.

9. “ First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.” – Jim Collins

12. STUDENTS Students should inspire schools. Students should NOT be an excuse for schools not moving from good to great .

14. Moving Schools from Good to Great Collegiality- cooperative interaction among colleagues; supporting colleagues in their work.

15. Moving Schools from Good to Great Professionalism an action that supports the willingness to agree to disagree; recognizing colleagues with professional status, methods, character, or exceptional standards.

16. Moving Schools from Good to Great Product/Student-centered the idea of planning, teaching, and assessing around the interest, needs and abilities of the students; a focus that is tuned into what is important to the student.

35. “ Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them.” --Jim Collins

37. First steps to develop level 5 leaders • Set and share the vision • Build discipline and governance • Manage changes proactively • Bring on board committed people “Empower your future leaders with knowledge and skills”

46. Reference Collins, J. (2001). Good to great: why some companies make the leap…and others don’t . New York, (HarperCollins Publishers Inc.). C. Travis Sutton