Good to Great “Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don’t" Harper Business‚ 2001‚ New York‚ NY. Review BySwarup Bose © www.hrfolks.com All Rights Reserved Table of Contents About the Author……………………………………….3 Thesis…………………………………………………...3 Chapter 1. Good is the Enemy of Great……………...4 Chapter 2.Level 5 Leadership………………………..5 Chapter 3. First Who….Then what…………………..6 Chapter 4. Confront the brutal facts…………………7 Chapter 5. Hedgehog Concept………………………9 Chapter 6. Cultural
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‘Conflict is rarely resolved.’ War. It is ruthless‚ unforgiving and most of all‚ futile. Has war really ever truly resolved the issues at cause? Has there ever been a rightful winner in war? There has not and there most likely never will be. My name is Genevieve Stack; I’m Megan Stack’s grandmother. I have had my fair share of confronting experiences; being at the fragile age of eighty-one‚ I know the truth behind war as in my earlier years‚ it is what surrounded the world. I have lived through
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Good to Great by Jim Collins Report As the name implies‚ the author of the title “Good to Great‚” embarked in a research study to try to discover what made some companies outstanding‚ persistent‚ and sustainable from their competitors. The author makes a clear distinction that the publication of the title is not meant to fill in the holes left behind on one of his previous titles‚ “Built to Last.” In fact‚ towards the ending of the research novel‚ the author states that if someone is going to
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about a lot of characteristics‚ values and traits needed in order to turn a company from a good one to a great one. What is rather surprising is how he gives a refreshing and actually quite unorthodox perspective on the topic. The things that he points out are what most would think the opposite of some of the values being taught in school. He starts off by identifying leadership as the key in running a great company. He points out that leaders who become beacons of success are the ones who actually
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Good to Great Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Other Don’t “Good to Great” is an exploration into the key factors that have transformed good companies into great companies (Collins‚ 2001). The book works from empirical data to build a fact based theory while urging the reader to remain impartial and to draw his/her conclusion based on the evidence presented. It identifies the key characteristics unique to 11 companies (Abbott‚ Circuit City‚ Fannie Mae‚ Gillette‚ Kimberly-Clark‚ Kroger‚ Nucor
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Michael Tauber ENGT 4983 (Energy Related Internship) Good to Great by Jim Collins Tulsa‚ Oklahoma has been named the oil capital for the nation and the world for quite awhile and is a perfect place to study the energy industry. The University of Tulsa College of Business established The TU Energy Management program in September 2006 and started accepting students in the fall of 2007. The first graduating class to obtain the Energy Management major was comprised of only two students
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that Luther believes that this forming process takes place in various ways and often in uncomfortable ways… Most notably this occurs through God’s Word and through suffering. It seems that Luther believes that God will even use the “wicked” or “wrong doers”
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the assimilating group becomes socially indistinguishable from other members of the society. Assimilation can be forced or voluntary. (http://www.britannica.com/topic/assimilation-society). In the novel Code Talker‚ Joseph Bruchac clearly shows the assimilation of the Navajo Indians. Code Talker is about a boy named Kii who must leave everything behind to go to a strict school that only allows English. Going to this new school is hard for him. Kii knows little to no English since he grew up speaking
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World War II / Navajo Code Talkers The Navajo of the Southwestern U.S. are the largest Indian Reservation and most recognized tribe in all of the United States of America. It was based on the Navajo Language‚ one of the hardest languages to learn. Children who lived on the Reservation were not allowed to speak their own language at school but even that didn’t stop them; they always used it at home or any other place but if children were caught speaking any other language besides English‚ they
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Today‚ these men are recognized as the famous Navajo Code Talkers‚ who exemplify the unequaled bravery and patriotism of the Navajo people. These Navajo men were selected to create codes and serve on the front line to overcome and deceive those on the other side of the battlefield (Discover Navajo). However‚ “unknown to many‚ the Navajo language was used to create a secret code to battle the Japanese. A lot of visitors from around the world are intrigued‚ yet also confused‚ when they hear the Navajo
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