GOOD TO GREAT Why Some Companies Make the Leap…. And Others Don’t Author : Jim Collins About the Author : Jim Collins‚ a student and teacher of enduring great companies. He serves as a teacher to leaders through the corporate and social sectors. He is an ex-faculty of Stanford University Graduate School of Business and proud recipient of the Distinguished Teaching award in 1992. Known for his deep research’s‚ Jim has authored or co-authored four books‚ including the classic a. BUILT
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Jim Collins creates a sort of guideline for companies that are mediocre or have had mediocre performances who want to make the leap to becoming a great company. The way Collins came up with these guidelines is by studying 11 great companies that were selected from a list of Forbes 500 companies and deemed great companies using a criteria created by Collins’ research team. These 11 companies were than each compared to a company in the same industry with similar resources but who did not perform as
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conscious choice‚ and discipline.” by Jim Collins. Good To Great and the Social Sectors by Jim Collins covers how leaders can meet goals efficiently with their desired group or team. This monograph dives into the deeper details and qualities of how businesses went from average to amazing with long lasting capabilities. Any business or group can deliver superior performance‚ achieve lasting endurance‚ and make a distinctive impact to the world no matter what the size (Collins ‚ 8). I have had the amazing
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Good to Great By Jim Collins I found my reading of Good To Great by Jim Collins very informative and even entertaining. It is interesting to me his concepts and perceptions and how although when you read them they seem rather elementary and obvious‚ Mr. Collins is indeed an outside the box thinker/writer and it is because of his ease of explaining his concepts that the message simply comes across as easy. The main idea that is presented in this book is that “Good is the Enemy of Great.” At first
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don’t By Jim Collins Can you identify one company that had changed from being good to being great around you? Jim Collins‚ the author of Good to Great‚ is a student and teacher of enduring great companies. In order to make this book‚ Mr. Collins started his research with 1‚435 good companies. Then‚ he examined their performance over 40 years‚ to later on‚ find the 11 companies that became great. The purpose of this book is to make us
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In the article The Re-Education of Jim Collins author Bo Burlingham identifies many items leadership expert Jim Collins feels aspiring leaders be should be mindful of. Aspiring leaders should value the information found in Burlinghams’s article because is being passed through him from one of the most respected organizational leadership professional of the modern era‚ Mr. Jim Collins. The principles and skills they outline will undoubtedly be important for leaders to understand and develop as they
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The goal of Good to Great by Jim Collins is to find the traits of great companies‚ through an extensive data collection project. Collins and his team tracked 28 companies from a variety of industries to find common traits that separated the “great” companies from the “good” companies. His team identifies six characteristics that separate good companies from great companies. Of these six‚ I personally found “First Who… Then What‚ the Hedgehog Concept‚ and the Culture of Discipline” the most interesting
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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
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The criteria that Jim Collins selected were sound. The level 5 leader’s attributes aligned well with that of servant leaders as well. Collins (2001) described level 5 leaders as ones that “Builds enduring greatness through a paradoxical combination of personal humility plus professional will” (p.5). That trait of being humble and doing what is in the best interest of the organization was present also. They do what was best for their organizations and employees‚ not just themselves so adding
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PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE In social research‚ the question‚ assumption and development of theories are traditionally centered on a search for truth‚ knowledge or at least communicate information for decision making. My initial reading of Good to Great was by no means presented as a research project and left the reader feeling as if he had just been introduced to a motivational speaker or a misplaced stock broker. However‚ as a Doctoral student‚ I applied some basic analytic matrix learning and
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