Collins’ book Good to Great unpacks an underestimated power that helps companies‚ organizations and even churches achieve more than others. Basically‚ Collins says‚ we settled for good enough and we need to pursue greatness. He says‚ “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness‚ it turns out‚ is largely a matter of conscious choice.” It is a choice and a choice that every leader must choose. However‚ choosing great over good does not come how most people would assume. Great companies focus
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Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don’t This report consists of the critical analysis of Jim Collins’s book Good to great‚ a brief introduction of the author and background of the book. 2012 Faraz Shaukat Materials Engineering (Sec-A-97) 5/13/2012 Introduction Jim Collins is a student and teacher of enduring great companies — how they grow‚ how they attain superior performance‚ and how good companies can become great companies. Having invested nearly a quarter
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Short Critical Reflection Paper * Presnky‚ in his infamous article “Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants‚” coined the notion that the youth are digital natives and the older generation digital immigrants. But I am not sure I agree. I know many teenagers who can download movies‚ post to Facebook‚ find a YouTube video and more‚ but the minute they need to learn something there is a lack of knowledge. Am I wrong here? I would not agree with Presnky either. I do think teenagers are very familiar
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Good to Great Jim Collins’s Good to Great seems to derive findings from market instances of which he and his team were able to minimize or even eliminate any market-specific factors in order to compare the chosen companies by level of similarities that brought them through the process to ’great’ success. As the chosen companies that achieved ’greatness’ were compared to a similar comparison company that did not make the correct choices towards creating a ’great’ company‚ Collins and his team
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and behaviors modified as needed through a graduated disciplinary process. When officers make statements or act in a manner that disrupts the order of the department‚ formal counseling and/or graduated discipline has to take place. In the book “Good to Great” by Jim Collins (2005)‚ the concept of getting the right people on the bus is a key component to building
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Summary In 1996 Jim Collins asked the question‚ "Can a good company become a great company and if so‚ how?" (Collins‚ p195) Collins and a dedicated band of 22 researchers set out to discover what transforms good companies into truly great companies. Their criteria for greatness was tough: The researchers sought companies that had underperformed the general stock market for at least 15 years‚ then went through a transition‚ and subsequently outperformed the general stock market by at least three
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Paresh Uppal Reflection Paper MS12A051 My Reflections upon the Organizational Behaviour Course A 24-year old‚ Gen-Y guy entered a B-School with an aim to enter the Operations Field. He was asked to go through a Core course of Organizational Behaviour. He thought to himself‚ “What does an institute like IIT think‚ asking an aspiring MBA-grad to go through this HR Course?” Well‚ that was me at the beginning of this quarter when I saw the time-table for this quarter. I have been through
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REFLECTION PAPER After reading the “Keep a Tight Hold On Your Job” by Ernie O. Cecilia‚ it taught me some tips that will help me prolong my job in the future. From the basic of keeping myself to be an effective employee to ideas of how to have a good and healthy relationship to your boss and co-workers. During this time‚ I have opened my mind and personal views up to some ideas that I was not always good at with. As a future employee in the industry‚ I have to prepare myself in to different task
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teachings. My faith and beliefs have been challenged‚ not for the worse but actually for the better‚ which showed me how not to fall short of The Lord and his Glory. In this reflection paper‚ I hope to give insight on what I have learned‚ and also giving my personal opinions to each topic. My topics of discussion and reflection are first “Did Jesus need to be born of a Virgin? and “Does it matter how Christians liver their life?” ------------------------------------------------- Did Jesus need to
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------------------------------------------------- Module 1 ------------------------------------------------- Reflection Paper We study child’s development to further our knowledge about how it evolves over the entire life span of a child specifically during his/her childhood. It has been 4 years ago since I studied psychology courses during my undergrad program. Going back to basic feels good‚ I am rediscovering and relearning the topics that I enjoyed few years ago. Module one talks about the general
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