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Good to Great: Why some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't,
by Jim
Collins. 
This phenomenal book should be required reading for any executive team
running a large corporation as well as anyone who wants to steer a good
small business toward true excellence. After first reviewing the
universe of Fortune 500 companies, Collins and his research team found
only 11 companies that qualified for good-to-greatness according to
their stringent standard: tripling the performance of the S&P 500 over
at least 15 years after a sustained period of average (or worse)
performance. The researchers systematically compiled and analyzed
a massive amount of information about these companies, culled from
publicly available sources and personal interviews, and
compared their data to that from similar firms that never made the
good-to-great leap or made the leap but could not sustain greatness.
After five years of exhaustive research, the team distilled the
qualities and behaviors that enabled companies that were simply "good"
to become objectively "great." The common characteristics that
they discovered--all of
which were noticeably absent from the comparison companies--will
enlighten and possibly surprise many readers. I can confidently
say that this book contains a wealth of information that I will
personally use as a business and management framework in the years
ahead. |
ISBN:
0066620996
Format: Hardcover, 320pp
Pub. Date: October 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
"...Mr. Collins delivers
two seductive messages: that great management is attainable by mere
mortals and that its practitioners can build great institutions."
Wall Street Journal |
