From good to great - Jim Collins
You know you’re enjoying a business book when it gives you inspiration and business ideas on every page you read. Jim Collins starts by stating that “good” is the opposite of “great”. Because companies who perform well do not feel the need to improve and reinvent themselves. And are therefore, in the long run, disadvantaged.
Jim Collins and his team started their quest “Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how?" on a purely statistical basis. What are the parameters that correlate with success?
He finds that 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.
He speaks about how the executives, from companies that went from good to great, did not figure out how to drive the bus, but how to get the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off) and then they figured out where to drive it. “First Who, then What”
In the ‘management books’ category, this is essential reading.
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