Darwin Smith supplies the two traits before their local definition
Give the reader a specific situation to interpret, then use the formal explanation to make sense of it. A label or overview may already have appeared.
Good to Great
Jim Collins · 41 weeksDarwin Smith supplies the two traits before their local definition
SHORT SOURCE EXCERPT“personal humility with intense professional will.”
The chapter describes Smith’s lack of executive display and his resolve in selling Kimberly-Clark’s mills. A following subsection gathers those contrasted traits into the Level 5 description and explains the hierarchy.
The definition labels a conjunction that the case has already made visible: restraint about the self alongside determination about the company.
The source in context.
Darwin Smith’s unassuming manner and decisive actions introduce a leadership paradox. Collins then defines the Level 5 category more fully, compares leaders, and distinguishes institutional ambition from personal celebrity.
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The definition labels a conjunction that the case has already made visible: restraint about the self alongside determination about the company.
Its limit
Chapter 1 already previews the name and the humility–will pairing, and Chapter 2’s heading names Level 5. The sequence is a fuller local explanation after a case.
Source & edition
Jim Collins, Good to Great; inspected local source text, local electronic-text extraction with a 2001 copyright notice; print pagination and graphical layout not verified.
Supplied text, lines 596–689. The short quotation is checked against the source.
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local electronic-text extraction with a 2001 copyright notice; print pagination and graphical layout not verified