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Good to Great in 30 Minutes: The Expert Guide to Jim Collins's Critically Acclaimed Book
Good to Great ...in 30 minutes is your guide to quickly understanding the important business lessons outlined in Jim Collins's multimillion-selling blockbuster Good to Why Some Companies Make the Leap ...and Others Don't .
In Good to Great , renowned author Jim Collins gets to the bottom of what allows a company to make the leap from good to great. Collins surveys eleven of America's most successful companies and determines what the common factors are among them, including ambitious and thoughtful leadership, discipline, hiring processes, and the use of technology to accelerate growth. Good to Great presents the definitive study of how organizations large and small can achieve spectacular, sustained results.
Use this helpful guide to understand the critically acclaimed lessons of Good to Great , with tools such
As with all books in the 30 Minute Expert Series, this book is intended to be purchased alongside the reviewed title, Good to Why Some Companies Make the Leap .. and Others Don't .
In Good to Great , renowned author Jim Collins gets to the bottom of what allows a company to make the leap from good to great. Collins surveys eleven of America's most successful companies and determines what the common factors are among them, including ambitious and thoughtful leadership, discipline, hiring processes, and the use of technology to accelerate growth. Good to Great presents the definitive study of how organizations large and small can achieve spectacular, sustained results.
Use this helpful guide to understand the critically acclaimed lessons of Good to Great , with tools such
As with all books in the 30 Minute Expert Series, this book is intended to be purchased alongside the reviewed title, Good to Why Some Companies Make the Leap .. and Others Don't .
36 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2012
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November 16, 2012
Dear Previous Employer, read this book!
Seriously, if the execs at my previous employer had taken the 30 minutes to read this book and apply the fundamentals the firm would have become great by now. Garamond lays out the principles succinctly - the executives and the workforce in the field will have no difficulty following what will become their trajectory to greatness.
This summary encompasses all you need to know – personal characteristics, reassessment of your core values, use of tools. Stop the madness of revisiting the same painful struggles and accepting incompetence – read this book, stick to the path, be patient – and in four years you, too, could be at the top of the heap!
Seriously, if the execs at my previous employer had taken the 30 minutes to read this book and apply the fundamentals the firm would have become great by now. Garamond lays out the principles succinctly - the executives and the workforce in the field will have no difficulty following what will become their trajectory to greatness.
This summary encompasses all you need to know – personal characteristics, reassessment of your core values, use of tools. Stop the madness of revisiting the same painful struggles and accepting incompetence – read this book, stick to the path, be patient – and in four years you, too, could be at the top of the heap!
December 11, 2012
Sometimes it’s difficult to identify something as great, as distinguished from good. It’s even harder to know how to get from good to great. The summary version of Jim Collins’ “Good to Great” does a pretty smart accounting of both. As to the first matter, Collins poured through corporate performance data of over 1,400 companies over a 40 year period to identify a select number of companies that enjoyed significant and sustained elevated returns. In other words, they went from good to great. More meaningfully, “Good to Great” examines and explains how these companies did this. With a well thought out and laid out framework—think, leadership, personnel, actions—Collins offers insightful examples, illustrative strategies, and plain-old enjoyable story telling.
November 13, 2012
Think of every job you’ve ever had that suffered from poor management. Chances are there’s at least one. If you could give your manager one thing - aside from a swift kick to the shins - it should be this book. This 30 minute expert summary of Collins’s bestseller (and they do mean expert - the summary is concisely written without feeling overly stripped down) would be an invaluable aid to anyone who’s ever been in charge of . . . anything. With step-by-step advice on how to improve the performance of a business, I can’t think why someone wouldn’t take half an hour to read this mini-masterpiece.
November 21, 2012
Whether you’re running your own Fortune 500 Company or starting up a small business, Good to Great…In 30 Minutes is a must for anyone who wants the full effect of Collins’ groundbreaking work in a fraction of the time. At first glance, you might wonder how ideas like “The Hedgehog Concept” or “The Doom Loop” are relevant to business. But don’t worry. Good to Great…In 30 Minutes explains exactly how concepts like these caused eleven companies to go from good to great in a manner that’s both accessible and entertaining. If you have a tight schedule and an interest in business, I’d put this book at the top of my list.
November 12, 2012
This is a great summary of Jim Collin's Good to Great. It covers all his key points and explains why they create a successful company. All the companies that achieved greatness have a few elements in common- disciplined employees, honest feedback at all levels, and slow, steady growth- and the summary describes how they implement these ideas. A good guide for any organization.
July 21, 2013
Good summaryof great tips. Lot of folks I work with need to read this book...
December 22, 2013
Useful but surprisingly repetitive for such a small book. Far better to just go for the 'real' Good to Great.
December 5, 2012
Audiobook. Quick easy way to get the main points of the Good to Great book
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