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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by: Jim Collins List Price: CDN$ 52.95 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 37.06 You Save: CDN$15.89 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 658 EAN: 9780060794415 ISBN: 0060794410 Label: Harpercollins Trade Sales Dept Manufacturer: Harpercollins Trade Sales Dept Publication Date: June 02, 2005 Publisher: Harpercollins Trade Sales Dept Studio: Harpercollins Trade Sales Dept Sales Rank: 12542 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: From Amazon.com: Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" In Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time. They finally settled on 11--including Fannie Mae, Gillette, Walgreens, and Wells Fargo--and discovered common traits that challenged many of the conventional notions of corporate success. Making the transition from good to great doesn't require a high-profile CEO, the latest technology, innovative change management, or even a fine-tuned business strategy. At the heart of those rare and truly great companies was a corporate culture that rigorously found and promoted disciplined people to think and act in a disciplined manner. Peppered with dozens of stories and examples from the great and not so great, the book offers a well-reasoned road map to excellence that any organization would do well to consider. Like Built to Last, Good to Great is one of those books that managers and CEOs will be reading and rereading for years to come. --Harry C. Edwards Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - A management classic for everyoneGood to Great is a new and different research on the forces that drive change in all types of organizations. Written in textbook style, Jim Collins' book aims to help the reader bring his organization from a good (read average) level of performance to a great one by presenting and analyzing the case of a dozen Forbes 500 companies that have achieved the deed. According to Good to Great, the first step in achieving greatness lies in the selection of a special, ``Level 5'', manager who will install a climate of passion, debate and performance in his company while remaining modest. Other important factors in becoming great are a management that analyzes and believes in data, a culture of discipline inside the company, a well-defined ... Read More: Rating:  - Read itCollins' findings may shake up current perceptions of what it takes to make a company great. (The most crucial factor is to get the right people on the bus; charismatic leaders are a handicap; big change does not have to be wrenching, extreme, painful; you can't buy your way to greatness; people can't be motivated either by fear or by clever names or taglines for change programs...) The results from a five-year study of 11 companies that have sustained substantial gains over the market for 15 years speak for themselves - eloquently. Rating: - good guide but more ways to goJim Collins gives some very good ideas on quality management and good performing companies. Good read. But there are also other ways to measure performance. For this, this book is not enough. One way is to see the overseas expansion quality for these companies. Many companies are doing great at home market, but they are less successful when they expand overseas. Why? Many, many reasons. Some rather interesting studies on global multinationals doing biz in China are given in this book: China's global reach: markets, multinationals, and globalization by George Zhibin Gu, which also talks about the influences of these multinationals on the social and political changes inside China. Rating: - Great Books for Corporate CitizensThis is an excellent book to give to young people, which I did, because it gives them a mechanism for looking at unanticipated change in their career lives. Very often, we need a roadmap to assist us in navigating the troubling waters of corporate and company life itself...something to stand separate and unique from our colleagues. We often don't see the need for rain before the sun in order to see the flowers of spring. I highly recommend this book as a college graduation gift for the young person entering the work world -- an appropriately placed message on the "fly" will give them the courage they need to go forward. I also recommend THE BLACK BOOK OF OUTSOURCING (by Brown & Wilson) for a great practical primer on whats ... Read More: Rating: - Best Career Rejuvenation Books for Job Seekers & ChangersCollins gives the reader and superb overview of the fundamental "Good to Great" principles, and then supplants into areas specific to corporate organizations, such as how to creatively develop and review performance evaluation indicators without financials. Also, THE BLACK BOOK OF OUTSOURCING * by Brown & Wilson gave our company whole perspective on outsourcing and how to use it effectively without the whole predictable For-Profit corporate focus. Outsourcing can get your financially failing or struggling organization back on track without exposing yourself to the potholes of offshoring and through the improvements in corporate process that GOOD TO GREAT employs. These books will teach you what you need to know. Read More: |
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