Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 658 EAN: 9780066620992 ISBN: 0066620996 Label: Collins Business Manufacturer: Collins Business Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 300 Publication Date: 2001-10 Publisher: Collins Business Release Date: October 16, 2001 Sales Rank: 53 Studio: Collins Business
Good service and good product
Book came on time and very clean. Few writings here and there which was already mentioned. Book is in excellent condition. Thank you.
A great book, but try not to fight the examples.
Jim Collins and his team did a great job of breaking down both business and leaders into factors that helped make them successful. Thought Collins markets his book as a business book I believe, like those of Covey, the theories in Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't will serve you well in both business and personal aspects of your life. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't was actually used as a text in my MBA studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University's Silberman College of Buisness, a nationally top ranking entrepreneurship school. As such I've engaged in many hours of discussion with both students and seasoned professionals about the merits and short-comings of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't.
First, I'll start with where it comes up short since everyone loves that and I'd prefer to finish on a positive ... Read More
Interesting look at leadership. CD media great for long drives.
I read the book a while back and was surprised to find parallels to what my dad and uncle (partners in a small business) experienced in the late 70s/early 80s. I knew they did something special, but it was especially gratifying to see it documented and quasi-proven with multiple industry observations on larger scales. I purchased the CD media so that my dad could enjoy it as well.
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Extremely well written. The valuable information from Collin's Good to Great is useful not only in a business but also in one's personal life. A must buy!
please burn every copy you can find
Please google critical review of G2G before reading. There are major problems with the "research" presented. Check out Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "The Black Swan" for some insight into what really makes a company great. The answer; no one really knows. It's all random.
Business books are nothing but fads and fashion. Read, borrow a couple of ideas, then throw them in the trash when you are done. G2G became required reading where I work and in my view has nearly destroyed the company. It was, and still is, considered the Gospel of business. Prior to G2G we grew from zero to $120M in 10 years. In the 7 years after G2G we are down to $60M. (Still profitable, thankfully, but boring.) Life was much more fun before we got hedge-hogged.
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