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ISBN
9780066620992
Book Title
Good to Great : Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Book Series
Good to Great Ser.
Publisher
HarperCollins
Item Length
9.2 in
Publication Year
2001
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1 in
Author
Jim Collins
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Topic
Leadership, General, Development / Business Development, Management, Strategic Planning, Corporate Finance / General, Organizational Development
Item Weight
17.4 Oz
Item Width
6.1 in
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0066620996
ISBN-13
9780066620992
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1934485

Product Key Features

Book Title
Good to Great : Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
Leadership, General, Development / Business Development, Management, Strategic Planning, Corporate Finance / General, Organizational Development
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Author
Jim Collins
Book Series
Good to Great Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.4 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-024818
Dewey Edition
21
Series Volume Number
1
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Dewey Decimal
658
Synopsis
The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. "Some of the key concepts discerned in the study," comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people." Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?, The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The FindingsThe findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. "Some of the key concepts discerned in the study," comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people." Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?
LC Classification Number
HD57.7.C645 2001
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Copyright Date
2001

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  • by nigelmckelborg
    Apr 08, 2023Top favorable review

    Data-driven Value-Add Business Book

    One of the best research-driven books on the lasting nature of quality businesses. Should be a part of any future entrepreneur’s library.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: thrift.books

  • by 434paulie
    Nov 21, 2018Top critical review

    Interesting

    I read half, written to owners of companies not individuals. Funny that after our owner read this book he closed the doors on an established company that was doing well. He recked 75 people’s lives for this book. Adam G.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: thrift.books

  • by rich5059
    Apr 09, 2006

    Airplane reading for CEO’s and small business owners

    This is a business book on how to measure greatness in a corporate structure and what items led up to a company being great. This is aimed at the male market but is good for both sexes to hear. If you were disappointed by this writer’s last book you will be happy to know he got his act together on this one. Numbers junkies sleep well, his techniques for defining great corporate structure are sound. One way for a company to be great is that the leaders are not social icons in big homes but they are just normal folks who look to do the best job possible. If you liked the book “Millionaire Next Door” you will see a lot of leadership skills that are similar. This is a good read but is far better on audio because the data gets a bit old for the average human. RICH CHICKS specializes in ...

  • by ammon15
    Dec 14, 2010

    bad to worse

    After reading this book I was not very impressed. Jim Collins started with a template and tried to find companies that would fit into his template. His leadership idea is nothing new and he could have taken all the leaders in the world and found stories that fit into his mold. His revelations are obnoxious and he spends about half the book talking about the good to great concept instead of using deep analysis to uncover some hidden truths. One of the greatest flaws of this book is how he took a good look at certain companies through interviews but he failed to study any of the accounting changes that effected some of the businesses he discusses. One of the most notable is Walgreen's and circuit city who were able to structure their leases in such a way that they did not have to ...

  • by 2Oko10YdQqq@Deleted
    Apr 05, 2007

    Good to Great

    Jim Collins’ book, “Good to Great” is a summarization of 6 months of research and analysis of numerous companies’ financial data’s. After the research was completed Collins’ team discovered 11 companies that have exhibited various accomplishments to earn themselves a title of a “Good to Great” company. These companies’ stock returns were, all at one time, at or below the markets’. They then experience a growth until they registered stock returns three times that of the market, and were able to sustain this success for at least 15 years. These 11 exceptional companies where then compared to other companies in the same industry, that had the same or similar opportunities and had access to comparable resources. The bulk of the text is a synopsis of the concepts that enabled the good to great ...

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