If you enjoyed reading Peter's and John's posts about the Jim Collins presentation at The Premier Business leadership series, you'll really enjoy this list of ten things you can start doing today to become great.

Whether you are just staring your first business or a seasoned business leader, you can learn something here. Actually, you don't even need to be in business to find a takeaway in this list. I challenge you to think about how you can use these tips to become great at anything:

1. Complete the free Good to Great diagnostic tool on jimcollins.com.
2. Document your plans for getting staffed with the right people in the right seats within the next 6 months.
3. Double your questions-to-statement ratio in the next year.
4. First question to ask: What are the brutal facts? Do a brutal facts inventory with your team and include unassailable facts only.
5. Set a 20-mile march and stick to it. (Maintain a solid, consistent, dedicated pace toward your goals.)
6. Navigate uncertainty by being empirical (Don't get frozen. Fire bullets until you have a plan, THEN shoot the cannon.)
7. Make it a task -- before you buy any more stuff -- to be able to go an entire year without revenues (Do this in your personal life too & start young).
8. Create a "stop doing list." (Work is infiinite, time is finite. Decide what is not important.)
9. For at least one full day every two weeks, turn off all your electric devices. "We desperately need pockets of quietude to think," says Collins.
10. Set a 5-10 year big, hairy audacious goal that is founded on empiracle evidence that you know will work.

As a bonus tip, Collins concludes with a tip from one of his mentors, Peter Drucker, who once told Collins, "I sense you are worried about your survival. BAH! You will probably survive. Why don't you put your real time in to how to be useful."

Collins says, "When we are scared and uncertain, we need the right questions. I have found that question to be quite useful: How can I be more useful?"