For my Student Choice Book Report assignment‚ I read the book “Good to Great” by Jim Collins. Jim Collins‚ put the book together along with the contributions and collaborations of the Good to Great research team. The main purpose of the book was about the following question; “Can a good company become a great company and‚ if so‚ how?” (pg. 5). Jim and the research team have answered this question in a couple of different categories of disciplined. I picked two of them people‚ and thought. The first
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Good to Great Book Report The ideas that are given in this book will stimulated my mind into becoming a leader and perhaps enabled me to bring my company ahead of the competitors. It was amazing to see how Collins spent nearly five years in comparing the mediocre companies with great companies. One most notable difference is on how the level 5 leader responds to each situation that the company faces. This book will helped me to understand that if a company becomes big‚ its not because of the skilled
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Good to Great Book Review Throughout the book Collins examines what differentiates a good company from a great company. This first chapter addresses the process of evaluating information and finding characteristics that differentiates the two types of companies. After finding these characteristics Collins’s team compared the data to a variety of companies and discovered what a great company had that a good company didn’t. “We came to think of our research effort as akin to looking inside a black
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Good To Great by Jim Collins Chapter 9: From Good to Great to Built to Last Chapter Summary: • Four Conclusions: 1. Great companies from Built to Last evidence shows that early leaders followed good-to-great framework. The only difference is that they were entrepreneurs in small business‚ as opposed to CEO’s. 2. Apply Good to Great concepts to sustain results‚ as a
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The book Good to Great have seven (7) main concepts for leaders to being their organization or business from the level of good to a level of great. These concepts can be used in any industry and when applied correctly can help organizations standout from the rest when they are ready to move past just being good at what they do. The first principle is Level 5 (five) Leadership: It takes a leader who is modest‚ willful‚ humble and fearless to lead an organization from good to great. A Level 5 (five)
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Great Danes are more than just sophisticated‚ beautiful dogs. They are gentle‚ loving and kind. Breeders may see these dogs as a pay check‚ but people across the world who have had the privelage of being a Great Dane’s best friend disagree. As a matter of fact‚ anybody who has owned a pet of any kind would say that looks do not matter in the slightest. Whether a dog has AKC-desired markings or not‚ each owner finds their pet to be the most adorable thing on the planet. Why is it acceptable for
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how to count cards and hold a poker face but has many friends on the inside that help him with his whole operation. There’s not many details that can be released at this exact time for Gatsby’s own safety‚ but it is no shocker that Gatsby’s is very good at acting and he is
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Alexander the Great Alexander the Great Introduction Freeman (2011) narrates that Alexander the Great was a Macedonian King who lived from 356 BC to 323 BC. His parents were Queen Olympia and King Philip. Aristotle‚ the philosopher‚ tutored the young Alexander until he attained the age of 16 years. After his father was assassinated‚ Alexander was elevated to the throne of kingship in 336 BC as his late father’s successor. He was lucky to inherit an experienced army and a strong kingdom
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GOOD TO GREAT Why Some Companies Make the Leap…. And Others Don’t Author : Jim Collins About the Author : Jim Collins‚ a student and teacher of enduring great companies. He serves as a teacher to leaders through the corporate and social sectors. He is an ex-faculty of Stanford University Graduate School of Business and proud recipient of the Distinguished Teaching award in 1992. Known for his deep research’s‚ Jim has authored or co-authored four books‚ including the classic a. BUILT
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had mediocre performances who want to make the leap to becoming a great company. The way Collins came up with these guidelines is by studying 11 great companies that were selected from a list of Forbes 500 companies and deemed great companies using a criteria created by Collins’ research team. These 11 companies were than each compared to a company in the same industry with similar resources but who did not perform as well as the "great" companies in the 15 year time span in which the companies were
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