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Book Review

Jim Collins
Good to Great: Why some companies make the leap and others don’t
New York: Harper Business Books, 2001
300 pages

Contents:
Introduction
The Flywheel
Build Up
Level 5 Leadership
First Who then What
Confronting the Brutal Facts
Breakthrough
The Hedgehog Concept
The Culture of Discipline
The Technology Accelerators
Review


Introduction

Jim Collins has written an appealing book as he translated the research findings into simple, understandable management lessons. As the title suggests, Collins and his research team analysed some key indications such as organisational structure, leadership style and technology to answer the question: ‘Why some organisations are able to make a jump from good to great- sustained greatness?

The motivation to do this project came whilst Collins was having a dinner with a group of people who were called leaders shortly after his earlier book......

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