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Main Title Good to great : why some companies make the leap ... and others don't /
Author Collins, James C.
Publisher HarperBusiness,
Year Published 2001
OCLC Number 46835556
ISBN 9780066620992; 0066620996
Subjects Leadership ; Strategic planning ; Organizational change ; Technological innovations--Management ; Success in business--Case studies ; Executives ; Corporate culture ; Administrative Personnel ; Organizational Innovation ; Organizational Culture ; Technology--organization & administration ; Développement d'aptitudes ; Organisationswandel ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Unternehmen ; Leiderschap ; Bedrijven ; business strategy ; management strategy ; corporate planning ; organization development ; personnel management ; discipline ; technological change ; case study ; USA ; LIDERANðCA ; PLANEJAMENTO ESTRATâEGICO ; MUDANðCA ORGANIZACIONAL ; INOVAðCäOES TECNOLâOGICAS ; Inventions ; stratégie d'entreprise ; stratégie de gestion ; planification d'entreprise ; développement de l'organisation ; commandement ; gestion du personnel ; changement technologique ; étude de cas ; Etats-Unis ; estrategia empresarial ; estrategia de gestión ; planificación corporativa ; desarrollo de la organización ; liderazgo ; administración de personal ; disciplina ; cambio tecnológico ; estudio de casos ; Estados Unidos ; Businesses ; Evaluation ; Management and organization ; Administration/ Management Methods ; Administrative Planning ; Evaluative Methods ; Organizing ; Planning Techniques ; Planification strat egique ; Changement organisationnel ; Innovations--Gestion
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EJAM  HD57.7.C645 2001 Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA 10/11/2011
EKCM  HD57.7.C645 2001 CEMM/GEMMD Library/Gulf Breeze,FL 08/23/2023
ELBM  HD57.7.C645 2001 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 09/17/2012
EMAM  HD57.7.C655 2001 Region 6 Library/Dallas,TX 11/02/2010
Edition 1st ed.
Collation xii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-286) and index.
Contents Notes
Built to Last 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 the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The findings of the Good to Great study include: the research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness; to go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence; when you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results; good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology; and those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap.