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Jim collins is coauthor of built to last, a national bestseller for over five years with a million copies in print. Goodtogreat companies think differently about the role of technology. For more than a quarter century, jim has studied what makes great companies tick. Applying jim collins good to great to human service organizations i found jim collins bestseller good to great to be an interesting, surprisinglyapplicable book for social workers. Get the right people on the bus in the right seats jim. 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.
The study for years, this question preyed on the mind of jim collins. Driven by a relentless curiosity, jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at the stanford. When people discuss the most influential business books, good to great. Jim collins is a student and teacher of leadership and what makes great companies tick. What are some links from which i can download jim collins. Companies that make the change from good to great have no name for their. 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. To write good to great, 1,435 companies were analyzed over a 40 year period. Why some companies make the leap and others dont hardcover unabridged, october 16, 2001. Some companies have always been great, such as cocacola.
With more than 25 years of research on this topic, the following. But for the most part, collinss book has some sound principles in it that the reader shouldnt. Harper business good to great is jim collins most famous book. The followup to his international bestseller, built to last. Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching. Jim collins, an american author and business consultant, focuses on providing companies with new ways to grow. Ten years after the worldwide bestseller good to great, jim collins returns to ask. Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fastmoving times.
The findings of the good to great study will surprise many readers and shed. The book includes a useful model which brings all the theory. Good to great pdf is a management related book which is written by jim collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert longterm mediocrity or. They are fairly generic and thus we all apply them from our own viewpoint to make them true. In good to great jim collins talks about why some companies remain. Jim collins answers the social sector with a monograph to accompany good to great. Collins that describes how companies transition from being good companies to great companies, and how most companies fail to make the transition. In his book, good to great, jim collins creates a lasting and memorable metaphor by comparing a business to a bus and the leader as a bus driver. In this book collins and his research team analyze and compare numerous corporations in an attempt to identify what key aspects set apart successful companies. The book good to great by jim collins is technically a business book, but many of its findings apply to individuals as well.
When i finally picked it up i was surprised to find it was. After a fiveyear research project, jim collins concludes that good to great can and does happen. 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. Collins presents a blueprint for transforming good companies into ones that produce great, sustained results. Collins that describes how companies transition from. Here in one place are the timeless concepts that emerged from more than. Good to great by jim collins is a book that has been sitting on my bookshelf for awhile now. You can watch my complete free 20 minute video summary of good to great by jim collins on our site at. We dont have great schools, principally because we have good schools. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. Jim collins wrote the essay built to flip in the march 2000 issue of fast company. In this article, well summarize the key points of the classic business book, good to great by jim collins.
Collins is one of the bestselling management books of all time. Good to great and the social sectors this monograph sprang from the realization that the good to great concepts have use far beyond businessin government, nonprofits, schools, and just about everywhere else. The book was a bestseller, selling four million copies and going far beyond the traditional audience of business books. Its about companies who were good for a long time and then somehow became great for a long time. I began reading the book with a slightly cynical attitude, which i admittedly struggle with when reading about or discussing information related to big business. The seven principles discovered by collinss study in almost all. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. To great relentless from good to great from good to great book good to.
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. A student of enduring great companies, he serves as a teacher to leaders throughout the. Good to great by jim collins book summary oberlo blog. The book was published in the united states in 2001.
Good to great examines what it takes for ordinary companies to become great and outperform their competitors by analyzing 28 companies over 30 years, who. Why some companies make the leapand others dont far outsold the typical business oriented book with millions of copies in print. Why some companies make the leap and others dont 8600383743. Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not. Ten out of eleven goodtogreat ceos came from inside the company, three of them by family inheritance. In his research, jim collins the author, has found out systematic phases through which any great company goes through and lays out a framework as shown below. First of all, the goodtogreat principles are true in the same way a horoscope is true. In great by choice, collins and his colleague, morten t. Why some companies make the leap and others dont, published by collins business.