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Paperback. Pub Date: October 2001 in Publisher: Harper The ChallengeBuilt 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 verybeginning.But what about the company that is not born with great DNA How can good companies. mediocre companies. even bad companies achieve enduring greatnessThe StudyFor 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 greatThe StandardsUsing tough benchmarks. Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results ...
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The author of Built to Last uses his research on the Fortune 500 to create a blueprint for turning good companies into spectacular ones. Read by the author.
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Five years ago Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last concludes that it is possible, but finds that there are no silver bullets to greatness. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time. They finally settled on 11--including Gillette, Walgreens and Wells Fargo--and discovered common traits that challenged many of the conventional notions of corporate success. Making the transition from good to great doesn't require a high-profile CEO, the latest technology, innovative change management or even a fine-tuned business strategy. At the heart of those rare and truly great companies was a corporate culture that rigorously found and promoted disciplined people to think and act in a disciplined manner. Peppered with dozens of stories and examples from the great and not-so-great, Collins lays a well-reasoned roadmap to excellence that any organisation would do well to consider. Like Built to Last, Good to Great is one of those books that managers and CEOs will be reading and rereading for years to come. --Harry C Edwards
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- PublisherHarperaudio
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 069452607X
- ISBN 13 9780694526079
- BindingAudio Cassette
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