In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins talks about companies that have gone from being good companies to being great companies. He identifies a list of factors that contribute to the changes, and one of the factors was what great leaders do when they are faced with things going right or wrong.

What Jim establishes is that when things go wrong for bad leaders they are likely to ‘look out the window’ to attribute blame to their employees and those around them. While when things go well for bad leaders they ‘look in the mirror’ and attribute the success to their own hard work.

In contrast, the great leaders are likely to ‘look out the window’ when things go right, and attribute their success to the hard work of members of their team. While when things go badly they ‘look in the mirror’ and consider what they personally could have done differently to have created better results.

Are you ready to go from good results to great results? Maybe it is time to start changing how you look at your failures and your successes. Looking at them in a way that allows you to learn from your mistakes will produce the best results in the long run.

When things go wrong, look in the mirror and get the learning!

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