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Littlewoods LXdirect Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don't Author: Jim Collins Hardcover Usually ships in 24 hours Delivery is subject to warehouse availability. Shipping delays may occur if we receive more orders than stock. Our Price: $42.00 Our Sale Price: $29.40 Savings: $12.60 (30%) Ordering is 100% secure . Spend $39 or more at chapters.indigo.ca and your order ships free!. ( Details ) ISBN: 0066620996 Published: October 2001 | Published by Harper Collins chapters.indigo Review Review by Heather Reisman, CEO of Indigo Books & Music Inc. This is an amazing look at how even businesses that started out "so-so" can make the jump to being a truly excellent operation. No manager can afford to ignore the sometimes-shocking findings of this remarkable book. From the Publisher The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Usingtough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? 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 world’s greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness’why some companies make the leap and others don’t. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team wasshocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. 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? Review Quotes One of the top ten business books of 2001 Business Week Reader Reviews Average Reader Review: Number of Reviews: 2 1. Back to basics! Reviewer: Paul Fleck from Mount Hope / Ontario (htftech@quickclic.net) Date: 12/3/2002 2:08:18 PM The author and his team brought to our doorsteps the results of a tedious exam of companies that use the very basic's of successful business management. Put away that MBA, hide that new mantra you've been saving for the team! Get focussed, get passionate, deliver what you do best! Great book, inspiring for the small business person! 2. Good to Great is a Great Book Reviewer: Brad McRae from Halifax, NS (brad@bradmcrae.com) Date: 11/27/2002 1:30:41 PM Every once and a while a business book comes along that revolutionizes our thinking and becomes a classic. Good to Great is just such a book. The book starts with the provocative statement "Good is the enemy of great". Collins then develops objective criteria that differentiated the good from the great companies, and noted that there is a point at which the great companies started behaving remarkably differently from their good counterparts. The great companies attained extraordinary results, averaging cumulative stock returns 6.9 times the general market in the fifteen years following their transition from good to great. Collins then compares these extraordinary companies with other companies, which remained good but did not reach the transition from good to great. 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