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Summary: Good to Great Jim Collins
This work offers a summary of the book "GOOD TO Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don't" by Jim Collins.
Jim Collins is the founder of a management research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. He has spent more than 10 years studying and analyzing how great companies achieve superior performance, grow and then perform consistently well. The results of this analysis have been contained in the four books he has coauthored including Built to Last and Beyond Entrepreneurship.
Can a good company become great, and if so, how does that transition process occur? To answer that question, the 40year operating results of 1,435 established companies were analyzed. From that database, 11 companies were identified which had made a sustainable transition from being good (or average or mediocre) to great.
How did these 11 companies become great, and are those lessons replicable? As Jim Collins explains in Good to Great, none of these companies launched radical or high profile change programs. Nor did they have a miracle moment where a flash of inspiration showed them the way to the "Promised Land". Instead, they used downtoearth and pragmatic programs. In this compelling analysis, the author explains their goodtogreat transition process.
Filled with revealing stories and practical examples, Good To Great is a must read for entrepreneurs.
Jim Collins is the founder of a management research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. He has spent more than 10 years studying and analyzing how great companies achieve superior performance, grow and then perform consistently well. The results of this analysis have been contained in the four books he has coauthored including Built to Last and Beyond Entrepreneurship.
Can a good company become great, and if so, how does that transition process occur? To answer that question, the 40year operating results of 1,435 established companies were analyzed. From that database, 11 companies were identified which had made a sustainable transition from being good (or average or mediocre) to great.
How did these 11 companies become great, and are those lessons replicable? As Jim Collins explains in Good to Great, none of these companies launched radical or high profile change programs. Nor did they have a miracle moment where a flash of inspiration showed them the way to the "Promised Land". Instead, they used downtoearth and pragmatic programs. In this compelling analysis, the author explains their goodtogreat transition process.
Filled with revealing stories and practical examples, Good To Great is a must read for entrepreneurs.
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30 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 2011
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February 5, 2019
This book is really helpful to all those entrepreneurs who wants to become the great business leader and have very long term vision for their business
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January 2, 2024Collins describes the resutls of a study on "good to great" companies and notes that they show level 5 leadership, disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined action.
November 2, 2025
The ideas of the book are good and interesting for someone building a company but the book itself is quite outdated.
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July 7, 2014Successor to 'built to last', similar messages.
April 3, 2017
Useful summary - gets to the heart of the content with just the right level of detail
Well set out summary with a good selection of quotes from the author. Allowed me to quickly get the gist of the books' proposition.
Well set out summary with a good selection of quotes from the author. Allowed me to quickly get the gist of the books' proposition.
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