The Flywheel effect is a concept developed in the book Good to Great. No matter how dramatic the end result, good-to-great transformations never happen in one fell swoop. In building a great company or social sector enterprise, there is no single defining action, no grand program, no one killer innovation, no solitary lucky break, no miracle ...

The flywheel image captures the overall feel of what it was like inside the companies as they went from good to great. No matter how dramatic the end result, the good-to-great transformations never happened in one fell swoop. There was no single defining action, no grand program, no one killer innovation, no solitary lucky break, no wrenching ...

Flywheel. Video Transcript. Return to video. Remember we wrote in Good to Great that big things happen by pushing on a giant, heavy flywheel. You start pushing in an intelligent and consistent direction, and after a lot of work you get one giant, slow, creaky turn, but you don’t stop.

I wrote my latest monograph, Turning the Flywheel, to share new and practical insights about the flywheel principle, inspired by its wide-ranging impact in recent years.At one end of the spectrum there are fast-growing companies like Amazon, which has consciously harnessed the flywheel effect to feed its momentum machine.

Throughout Turning the Flywheel, I will share new intellectual insights that have become clear in the years since writing Good to Great about the Flywheel principle and my own practical guidance for you about how you might take the idea and make it yours. I hope you enjoy it. But most importantly, I hope you rigorously apply it.

The Hedgehog Concept is developed in the book Good to Great. A simple, crystalline concept that flows from deep understanding about the intersection of three circles: 1) what you are deeply passionate about, 2) what you can be the best in the world at, and 3) what best drives your economic or resource engine.

Flywheel. Think of two organizations you've observed: one that followed the flywheel principle, and the other that fell into the Doom Loop. What caused the difference between the two? What does your contrast teach about why so many organizations fall into the Doom Loop, rather than building momentum over the long term in the flywheel?

All great companies harness the flywheel effect. Later, in Good to Great and the Social Sectors, I observed how the flywheel principle also applies to social sector institutions. 2 But there is a big difference between business flywheels and social flywheels. For a business, you can focus primarily on the flywheel of your own corporation.

Build momentum by turning The Flywheel. Achieve breakthrough with 20 Mile March discipline. Renew and extend via Fire Bullets then Cannonballs. Stage 4. Building to Last Practice Productive Paranoia (Avoid the 5 Stages of Decline) Do more Clock Building, less time telling.

Flywheel Think of two organizations you've observed: one that followed the flywheel principle, and the other that fell into the Doom Loop. What caused the difference between the two? What does your contrast teach about why do so many organizations fall into the Doom Loop, rather than building momentum over the long term in the flywheel?