Run AOS with Good to Great
Keep Good to Great.
Run it with AOS.
Collins set the principles. AOS is what running them looks like at agent speed.
About
Good to Great by Jim Collins. HarperBusiness.
01What is different
Good to Great
AOS
What it operates
Principles: Level 5 leadership, first who then what, Hedgehog Concept, Flywheel.
A 61-person team that executes those principles every day. Hedgehog written into operating memory; Flywheel measured in Mission Control.
Cadence
Annual strategic review for most.
Weekly cadence, continuous execution against the Hedgehog.
Cost
$200 of books and a year of internalizing them.
$1,000 install. $100/mo hosted. Same principles, executed instead of read.
02Where AOS and Good to Great align
The shared spine.
Good to Great and AOS were built for the same insight: founder-led companies need a system, not heroism.
Both start with the right people.
You bring the people. AOS gives you the seats they would have built around them.
Both run on a Hedgehog.
AOS reads your Hedgehog Concept from operating memory and rejects missions outside of it.
Both honor the Flywheel.
Mission Control shows the Flywheel turning, measure by measure.
Both disciplined.
Five Approval Points are AOS's disciplined action.
03Run both. Here is how.
You do not have to choose.
Keep Good to Great. Add AOS.
Good to Great runs your humans. AOS runs your agents. Founders we work with most often run them in parallel.
01Re-read Good to Great quarterly. Paste the Hedgehog Concept into your AOS operating memory.
02Let AOS measure the Flywheel turning, week by week.
03Apply Collins' disciplined-people-thought-action lens to your AOS roster and trim what does not pass.
FAQRun AOS with Good to Great. Common questions
Run AOS with Good to Great. Common questions
Yes. Most founders we work with do. They keep their human cadence and let AOS handle the agentic work alongside it.
Legal: AOS is independent. Not affiliated with Jim Collins or his publisher.
Keep your Good to Great habit.
Install your AOS.
Twenty minutes to provision. Thousand dollars one-time. One hundred dollars a month on top. Pause anytime.