Good to Great, Jim Collins
Good to Great, Jim Collins
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Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Other's Don't

Author: Jim Collins

Narrator: Jim Collins

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/13/2010

Synopsis

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 companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? Are there those that convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? If so, what are the distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?Over five years, Jim Collins and his research team have analyzed the histories of 28 companies, discovering why some companies make the leap and others don't. The findings include:Level 5 Leadership: A surprising style, required for greatness.The Hedgehog Concept: Finding your three circles, to transcend the curse of competence.A Culture of Discipline: The alchemy of great results.Technology Accelerators: How good-to-great companies think differently about technology.The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Why those who do frequent restructuring fail to make the leap.

About Jim Collins

Jim Collins has published multiple international bestsellers that have sold in total more than 11 million copies worldwide, including the perennial favorite Good to Great. His writings and teachings are based on extensive research projects designed to uncover timeless principles of human endeavor and have had a lasting impact across all sectors of society. All of Jim’s books share a common thread: the study of people and how they navigate the big questions of leadership and life.  

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Beau Hopkins on 2021-06-18 23:19:36

While I initially took issue with the premise of what qualifies as a "great" company in the book I quickly found the incites applicable to nearly every business model that I liked. Nearly everything else about the book and the material are spot on in as much as there is a clear and decisive difference in those managers and executives that don't stick to "by the book" measurements and see the fluidity of the business they are in. Very glad I listened to it and even happier to have been driving co-workers crazy with all my outbursts of how great the book is.

Goodreads review by Ensiform on May 12, 2012

A monograph to accompany Collins’ Good To Great (which I haven’t read). The underlying principle of this “missing chapter” is that we don't need to impose the language of business on the social sector, but develop a language of greatness. He does this by focusing on five issues that he used in the b......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on December 11, 2012

Extensive quotes from the book: Five questions which form the framework of this piece: 1. Defining "Great"--Getting Thing Done without Business Metrics 2. Level 5 Leadership--Getting Things Done within a Diffuse Power Structure 3. First Who--Getting the Right People on the Bus within Social Sector Const......more

Goodreads review by Cristine Braddy on March 09, 2021

Helpful, quick translation of Good to Great to the social sector.......more

Goodreads review by Stacie on April 19, 2008

To quote a brilliant former colleague, "Jim Collins makes me swoon." I've read and reread this booklet 3 different times, and I pick up something new every time. Its refreshing to look at a different paradigm from someone who gets that the work of non profits is not defined by the financial statemen......more

Goodreads review by Mitchell on August 31, 2019

Collins is amazing. He does so much research and speaks so clearly with practical steps to his theoretical knowledge of problems. So many amazing things to implement into ministry.......more

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