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Summary Of Good To Great: The Hedgehog And The Fox By Isaiah Berlin

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According to Chapter 5 of Jim Collins book, Good to Great, he mentions the essay “The Hedgehog and the Fox” by Isaiah Berlin. This essay is based from the idea that “the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing”. Berlin figured out that people are either foxes or hedgehogs. People who act more like the fox are focused on many different things and do not have one clear idea or talent that truly diversifies themselves from other people; consequently, they are always distracted and never have a unifying purpose. However, hedgehogs are more simplistic. Hedgehogs have one clear idea, goal, or talent that they focus on and become the best in the world at. This same principle can be applied to businesses, hedgehogs in businesses …show more content…

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