Good to Great CD: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

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 very beginning.

But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? Are there those that convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? If so, what are the distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?

Over five years, Jim Collins and his research team have analyzed the histories of 28 companies, discovering why some companies make the leap and others don't. The findings include:

Level 5 Leadership: A surprising style, required for greatness.
The Hedgehog Concept: Finding your three circles, to transcend the curse of competence.
A Culture of Discipline: The alchemy of great results.
Technology Accelerators: How good-to-great companies think differently about technology.
The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Why those who do frequent restructuring fail to make the leap.

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-21-2009; Great Book to Learn From; This was a great book to look at for figuring out how to create sustained excellence in an organization. The interesting thing to look at is how it has sustained itself over time. As someone else pointed out, some of the companies...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-14-2009; Good Great; Was a great book to allow you to look at how to put in place the important issues that will allow your business move from being just a good company and become a great company by most all standards. It also allows you to look at many...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-03-2009; Must Read -- Life changing if principles are applied; "Good to Great" was reccommended by a friend who has had incredible success and I can see how he in the last six years has applied these principles and created GREAT results. Being in business and church ministry for over 15 years I now...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-01-2009; If you like it use it; As an independent OD consultant/researcher I would not argue with a 5 or a 1 star rating. On the 5 star side I have seen this book do a lot of good for companies. It is most often a step in the right direction by company standards. Its...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-21-2009; Great Book to Learn From; This was a great book to look at for figuring out how to create sustained excellence in an organization. The interesting thing to look at is how it has sustained itself over time. As someone else pointed out, some of the companies...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-01-2009; If you like it use it; As an independent OD consultant/researcher I would not argue with a 5 or a 1 star rating. On the 5 star side I have seen this book do a lot of good for companies. It is most often a step in the right direction by company standards. Its...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-28-2009; 2 of the Great 11 no longer exist as of 2009; The book has a poor record of identifying "great" companies. Among the 11 "great" companies in the book, two no longer exist: Circuit City (bankrupt and liquidated in 2009) and Gillette (swallowed by P&G in 2005, now defunct as a...; read full review | report as inappropriate