Coaching practices for Hedgehog Concept Jim Collins

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• I finally know what I should be focused on, but good opportunities keep landing in my lap and I say yes to all of them
• I keep waiting for one clean lightning-bolt answer about my purpose before I’ll commit to anything, and it never comes
• I know the thing I’ve committed to will take years of patient momentum to really pay off, but the constant short-term pressure keeps tempting me to chase quick wins instead
• I’m pulled in a dozen directions and none of them is clearly the thing
• I’m chasing too many things at once and my effort’s scattered everywhere

Practices that may help

1. The Hedgehog Concept
   Jim Collins’s Hedgehog Concept, drawn from his Good to Great research, proposes that enduring excellence comes from focusing on the intersection of three circles: what you can be world-class at, what drives your economic engine, and what you are deeply passionate about. It is a strategic framework derived from systematic study of high-performing companies; its application to individual purpose is widely used but the evidence base is organizational, not individual.
2. Ruthlessly prune commitments outside the intersection
   Once the intersection is visible, say no to opportunities — even good ones — that fall outside it.
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3. Treat the Hedgehog as a hypothesis that iterates
   Write your best current intersection as a testable hypothesis and update it when new information arrives.
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4. Commit to the long game the Hedgehog requires
   Expect the intersection to take years to inhabit fully — and protect it against urgency and short-term pressure.
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5. Map your three circles honestly
   Separately answer each circle — passion, best-at, economic engine — before looking for the intersection.
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6. Find your hedgehog concept — the one thing you can be best at
   Identify the intersection of what you can be best at, what drives your economic engine, and what you are deeply passionate about.
   Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
7. Identify what drives your economic engine specifically
   Name the specific mechanism by which your work creates value that the market will pay for — not just a field, but a mechanism.
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8. Reality-check the best-at circle with outside input
   Ask credible people who have seen your work directly whether you have genuine advantage — not people who love you.
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9. Test passion with the energy-after test
   Passion is revealed by what energizes you after doing it — not by what you aspire to love.
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10. Get the right people on the bus before setting direction
    Prioritize who is doing the work before deciding what to do.
    Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders

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