Jim Collins's fifth-level leaders.

Leadership is divided into five levels. The first level refers to personal ability; The second level is team skills; The third level is management ability; The fourth level is the traditional concept of leadership; The fifth level, not only has all the skills of the first four levels, but also has an "extraordinary ability", which is a humble quality (for example, "I have been trying to make myself qualified for this job." ) and firm professional will (such as resolutely selling all paper mills). Most of these people are unwilling to show their faces and accept flattery, but they have strong perseverance and are willing to give everything to make the company better, so they give up their selfish desires and devote all their energy to achieving the company's more ambitious goals. This is not to say that the "fifth-level leader" has no ego or personal desire. In fact, their ambition is unimaginable-but their ambition is not for themselves, but for the company and its great future.

The significance of the research is obvious: the board of directors and senior management of the company need to make great efforts to find a leader with five-level leadership ability when looking for the successor of the company's head, because this is related to whether the company can become an excellent company in the future and maintain excellent performance for a long time. If you don't do this, it is equivalent to sacrificing the long-term interests of the company for short-term interests, and it is equivalent to taking an irresponsible attitude towards all members of the company, including shareholders. Here, we should also make it clear that although the five-level leadership is not the only condition for the company to move from ordinary to excellent and maintain such excellent performance, it is a basic condition.