Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

Author

Jim Collins, Published by HarperCollins

ISBN

0066620996

Description

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?

Jim Collins is coauthor of Built to Last, a national bestseller for over 7 years with over a million copies in print. A student of enduring great companies, he serves as a teacher to leaders throughout the corporate and social sectors. Formerly a faculty member at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award, Jim now works from his management research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.

Reviews

This carefully researched and well-written book disproves most of the current management hype — from the cult of the superhuman CEO to the cult of IT to the acquisitions and merger mania. It will not enable mediocrity to become competence. But it should enable competence to become excellence.”

-- PETER F. DRUCKER

A book CEOs can’t wait to buy.”

-- USA TODAY