Turning the Flywheel
by Jim Collins
A monograph on the flywheel concept from Good to Great: how to find the four to six components that drive each other in a loop, with examples from Amazon, Vanguard and Intel, and how to extend and renew a flywheel over decades. Forty pages, dense and immediately applicable.
Read it if…
you want to articulate the compounding loop in your business in one diagram.
Skip it if…
you have not read Good to Great; start there.
Three things you will actually use
- A flywheel is a chain of inevitability, not a list of priorities.
- Renew the flywheel; do not replace it.
- Momentum is built by consistent pushes in one direction.
Do this first
Draw your flywheel in six steps where each step inevitably causes the next; if it does not, it is a list, not a flywheel.
Our verdict
Your compounding loop, in one diagram.
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