Jim Collins's Good to Great: Book Review

The book “Good to Great” is a non-fiction book written by Jim Collins. It talks about how good companies ( some were “bad” companies) changed their way of doing things and became great or successful. Collins gathered people to research on many different companies. In order to make a point, they used companies that were doing really well (which they called the “good to great companies”), compared them with companies ( the “comparison companies”) that were once great or even greater than those good to great companies at one point, and found out what were the factors that both companies differ in that made them go the opposite ways. To me it kind of talks about the three main points of Gladwell’s three books ( “Blink”, “Outliers”, and “Tipping Point”): decision making, success, and change, but in the management perspective. It talks about how certain acts and thinking of people can lead to a good decision being made in order to change the way a workplace operate and make the business successful. First factor that makes a company from good to great, or at least the first step a company should do based on the team’s research is that companies should have or find people with a Level 5 Leadership. Level 5 leaders are people who possess, of course, all the good traits that levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 leaders have but more. They are leaders who are humble and determined to do things for the sake of the business success, not their own. Normally people who possess a level 5 leadership traits came from level 1, but through time they accelerated and became a level 5 from experiences. But there are also some people who are naturally born with a level 5 traits, but are not really manifested. A level 1 leader has knowledge and talents that are very useful to the company’s strategies and possess the skills to do a great job. A level 2 leader uses his skills and knowledge in order for the project to succeed and works great with the people around him. A level 3 leader has