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Level 5 Leadership

One of the most surprising results of the research was in the discovery of the type of leadership required to turn a good company into a great one. One might think that such companies are led by  （1）  leaders with big personalities who make headlines and become celebrities.

Yet, Collins found that those leaders who seek and thrive in the  （2）  do not  （3）  what can be termed "Level 5 Leadership" behaviors. (The term Level 5 refers to the highest level in a hierarchy of executive capabilities.)  Leaders of this type-those who combine extreme personal humility with intense professional will-shun the attention of celebrity, （4）  their ambition toward the goal of building a great company. Collins explains that these leaders all set up successors for success, are compellingly modest, and have  （5）  resolve.

He also found that good-to-great leaders understand three simple truths:

• 1. If you begin with the "who," rather than the "what," you can more easily adapt to a changing world.
• 2. If you have the right people on the bus, the problem of how to motivate and manage people largely goes away.
• 3. If you have the wrong people, it doesn't matter whether you discover the right direction-you still won't have a great company.

All good-to-great companies began the process of finding a path to greatness by confronting the brutal facts of their current reality. Collins found that when a company starts with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of its situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.

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Vocabulary Focus

will (n)---- the determination to something, despite difficulties or opposition
modest (adj)---- tending not to talk about or make obvious one's own abilities and achievements
resolve (v)---- strong determination

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