The research conducted for this book is complicated however collins simplifies the process to more clearly explain why some things were included or omitted. The findings of the study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. Jim collins is a student of companies great ones, good ones, weak ones, failed ones from young startups to venerable sesquicentenarians. It begins with this statement, we sense a dangerous disease infecting our modern culture. Driven by a relentless curiosity, jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at the stanford graduate school of business, where he received the distinguished teaching award in 1992. The book includes a useful model which brings all the theory together in a meaningful and memorable way.
The amount of research and analysis that has gone into this book is mindboggling. A student of enduring great companies, he serves as a teacher to leaders throughout the corporate and social sectors. Five years ago jim collins asked the question, can a good company become a great company, and if so, how. Good to great by jim collins, 9781944195809, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. This weeks readings build upon and refreshes the concepts from 10,000 hours by malcolm gladwell and the art of war by sun tzu. To find the keys to greatness, collins s 21person research team read and coded 6,000 articles, generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transcripts and created 384 megabytes of computer data in a fiveyear project. Jim collins wrote the essay built to flip in the march 2000 issue of fast company. Jim collins, iii is an american business consultant, author, and lecturer on the subject of company sustainability and growth. In it, collins explains how some companies that are good become great. The result is a series of authored and coauthored books, each looking at the question from a different angle, written for leaders in the business and social sectors. Not only is it a great read, but there is data to back up all the research and help the reader draw comparisons between what is a good business and what is a great business. We dont have great government, principally because we have good government. You can watch my complete free 20 minute video summary of good to great by jim collins on our site at. When people discuss the most influential business books, good to great. Its sold over four million copies and remains one of the most instructive and important leadership resources, carrying wisdom that has remained pertinent since its publication in 2001.
May 30, 2018 jim collins describes the transformation process from good to great as a continual buildup followed by a breakthrough. This is how the author sets off a riveting journey explaining the findings from his and his teams half a decade of research in the conquest of how to make good. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a. Drawing upon cases from massive growth corporations like amazon to small companies, nonprofits, hospitals, and even k12 schools, this work breaks new intellectual ground. After a fiveyear research project, jim collins concludes that good to great can and does happen. In particular, two people that i trust intensely gillian and avinash kaushik said that they too, had a distaste for management theory diatribes, but loved this one. Pdf good to great by jim collins ankur puri academia.
From the author of built to last, good to great outlines a model for turning a good, average or even mediocre company into a great one. A guide for leaders who want to engage jim s full body of work. What are some links from which i can download jim collins books. Great by choice jim collins epilogue collins closes the book with comments that speak so well to our nations need to reestablish some of the foundational principles of a biblical world view that i have moved the epilogue to the front of the class. The seven principles of good to great jims jumbler. Good to great and the social sectors a monograph to accompany good to great paperbackby james c. Good to great this book addresses a single question. Discover book depository s huge selection of jim collins books online. 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. However after reading the monograph and receiving so many recommendations to read his best seller that inspired it, i finally decided to pick it up.
As the recipe book for hoisting yourself to an initial stage of greatness, good to great is actually the prequel, collins says. When i finally picked it up i was surprised to find it was published 15 years ago. Why some companies make the leap and others dont by jim collins and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for. Jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at stanford graduate school of business, where he received the distinguished teaching award in 1992. Before good to great, collins wrote the celebrated built to last, about visionary, iconic companies that have stood the test of time. Good to great builds upon 10,000 hours in a way that further implies that some people or companies in this case have special opportunities and a passion for what they do. Good to great simplified chinese version jiim collins, yu lijun on. Jim collins jim collins is the founder of a management research laboratory in boulder, colorado. In this article, well summarize the key points of the classic business book, good to great by jim collins. After the leap, the good to great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the worlds greatest companies, including cocacola, intel, general electric, and merck.
Some companies have always been great, such as cocacola. Jim collins is author or coauthor of six books that have sold in total more than ten million copies worldwide, including the bestsellers good to great, built to last, and how the mighty fall. Good to great by jim collins introduces new insight on successful companies. Why some companies make the leap and others dont jim collins the thesis of the book is that greatness is largely a matter of choice. Dec 05, 2015 the book good to great by jim collins is technically a business book, but many of its findings apply to individuals as well. The seven principles discovered by collinss study in almost all companies that went from good to great, and conversely not found in the comparison companies that never became great or became great.
Collins that describes how companies transition from being good companies to great companies, and how most companies fail to make the transition. We make this video to share with you the 5 most important lessons from good to great by jim collins the 5 major lessons in this book are. The ultimate business summary bundle including topline summaries of good to great, start with why, the emyth revisited, three laws of performance, topgrading and how the mighty fall by brevity books, gareth f. Based on an expansive 5year study, the ultrasuccessful book unearths the seven characteristics which make a good company great. Good to great by jim collins quickie book summary by dan.
Rather, it is to make the point that the best business books are often written backwards. The author of the national bestseller good to great and coauthor of built to last, he serves as a teacher to leaders throughout the corporate and social sectors. 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 dont. He has spent more than 10 years studying and analyzing how great companies achieve superior performance, grow and then perform consistently well. That said, i got so many recommendations to read jim collins book, good to great, that i couldnt resist. Its about companies who were good for a long time and then somehow became great for a long time. Based on a fiveyear research project comparing companies that made the leap to those that did not, good to great shows that greatness is not primarily a function of circumstance but largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline this book discusses concepts like level 5. The results of this analysis have been contained in the four books mr. Jim collins, an expert in the field of leadership, introduced a story from aesops fables called the fox and the hedgehog in his own book good to great. In good to great collins, the author of built to last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. It did this by appealing to the mainstream and not just the business community.
In this book, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organisation to make the leap from good to great while other organisations remain only good. Productive change begins when you confront the brutal facts. Gain a deeper understanding of the ideas presented in the books built to last and good to great by using these questions for discussion. Feb 21, 2012 this is not a post on how great organizations back slide into mere goodness although that would make a good future topic. In buildup and breakthrough, he saw successes in three stages. Why some companies make the leapand others dont far outsold the typical business oriented book with millions of copies in print. Discuss and determine where you are on your journey from good to great. Oct 16, 2001 jim collins is author or coauthor of six books that have sold in total more than ten million copies worldwide, including the bestsellers good to great, built to last, and how the mighty fall. For more than a quarter century, jim has studied what makes great companies tick. In the concluding chapter of good to great, collins makes a connection between this book and his previous work, built to last, which represented the findings of a sixyear study into the factors that determined whether a new company would survive in the longterm. Jul, 2010 good to great is an excellent book, filled with fascinating insights for the business leader, or anyone striving to make their organization great.
Jim collins is author or coauthor of six books that have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, including the bestsellers good to great, built to last, and how the mighty fall. Good to great by jim collins quickie book summary ebook. The hedgehog concept simplicity within the three circles 6. Collins that aims to describe how companies transition from being average companies to great companies and how companies can fail to make the transition. A book report on good to great by jim collins book report by gary tomlinson preface. In this video, well summarize the key concepts of good to great, including. Good to great by jim collins, 9780694526086, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. 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. Good to great by jim collins, first edition abebooks. This guide contains key points from the book along with discussion questions.
Good to great by jim collins is a book that has been sitting on my bookshelf for awhile now. One of the best management books to ever see the light of day, good to great by jim collins tries to answer the question why some companies make the leap mentioned in the title, while others fail. 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. Good to great has to rate in the top five of the many business books i have read and digested in my career. From good to great to built to last the author of good to great, james c. First and foremost, collins contends that companies need a set of core values in. In good to great author jim collins and his team of researchers analyzed the histories of twentyeight companies over five years to discover the key determinants of greatness. In his book, good to great, jim collins describes 6 concepts that a leadership team should apply to transform a good organization into a great one. Jim collins presents many interesting business concepts throughout good to great.
First, when you have a celebrity, the company turns into the one genius with 1,000 helpers. This monograph grows out of two decades of jim s observations of how leaders have employed the flywheel concept to build and accelerate momentum. Every good to great company embraced what we came to call the stockdale paradox. Good to great, jim collins shop online for books in australia. Jim collins book built to last showed how great companies triumph over time and how longterm sustained performance can be engineered into the dna of an enterprise from the very beginning. Recently, jim collins genredefining good to great has surfaced in quite a few discussions about my forthcoming book and thats a serious compliment. Great by choice uncertainty, chaos, and luckwhy some thrive despite them all. Critical analysis of jim collins book good to great. In good to great jim collins talks about why some companies remain ordinary while others go to being great and return stellar stock market returns. Five years ago, jim collins asked the question, can a good company become a great company and if so, how. Good to great 5 most important lessons jim collins. We dont have great schools, principally because we have good schools.
Here in one place are the timeless concepts that emerged from more than. By bringing together disciplined people, using disciplined thought and disciplined action companies can build up and break through the barriers that hold. Oct 16, 2001 after the leap, the good to great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the worlds greatest companies, including cocacola, intel, general electric, and merck. There is a direct relationship between the absence of celebrity and the presence of goodtogreat results. Its interesting to see the list of the companies that didnt make the cut like nike, inc. A journal favorite, good to great is essential reading for those looking to create a successful and great business. Discount prices on books by jim collins, including titles like babys first bank heist. In 1995, he founded a management laboratory in boulder, colorado. Why some companies make the leapand others dont, by jim collins, is one of the most frequently mentioned. Jim collins has written a classic on business development. Jim collins is coauthor of built to last, a national bestseller for over five years with a million copies in print. Good to great by jim collins is as clear an example as any. This book is a must read before implementing the next big change or improvement program in your business, or hiring the next keyperson. Collins sorted out the 11 most successful companies of all time based on their performance compared to the market minimal 3 times better, up to even 18x time better for a minimal of 15 years in a row to sort out personal leadership influences of.
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