Book Review
Good to Great -
Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
By Jim Collins
Few people
attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a
good life. The vast majority of companies never become great,
precisely because the vast majority become quite good - and that is their
main problem. Good is the enemy of great. Thus begins Good to
Great ... I read these words and I was hooked.
"This carefully
researched and well-written book disproves most of the current management
hype - from the cult of the superhuman CEO to the cult of IT to the
acquisitions and merger mania. It will not enable mediocrity to become
competence. But it should enable competence to become excellence."
- Peter Drucker
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I can't think of too many other
books, if any, that have had such a profound influence on management and
leadership thinking in the last decade. You've undoubtedly heard someone,
somewhere referring to something in this book:
- Level 5 Leadership
- First Who ... Then What
(you know, the metaphor about getting the right people, in the right seats,
on the bus)
- Confront the Brutal Facts
(Yet Never Lose Faith)
- The Hedgehog Concept
(knowing what you can be best at, what ignites your passion, and what drives
your economic engine)
- A Culture of Discipline
- The Flywheel and the Doom
Loop
It's all in here ... and it's
all good, I mean, GREAT! Go ahead and purchase a copy of Good to Great
and while you're waiting for it to arrive, check out
Jim Collin's article from Fast Company Magazine.
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