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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Running head: Good to Great Book Review | In partial fulfillment for the requirement for DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND COUNSELING BY TIFFANY TURNER-BANKS 11/12/2011 Jim Collins and his research team have done a wonderful job identifying what it takes for a company to go from good to great. I found this book extremely interesting and would like to share several of my thoughts. The study looks at companies that appeared on the Fortune 500 from the years of 1965 to
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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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heroes of the War were the Navajo Code Talkers. They used their language as a code‚ making their code unbreakable to the Axis powers‚ and their ability to decode faster than any other. Those who we
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fight for their country in the 1940’s. The code talkers are a main part of the victory in World War II. They used a secret code no one could break. The code talkers were made of classified tribes that no one knew about until they were declassified years after the war was over. The Native American code talkers were important because no one could break their code. The tribes included were the Navajo‚ the Comanche‚ and the Choctaw. When a Navajo code talker received a message‚ what he heard was a string
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Navajo‚ the Code Talkers The Navajo code talkers took part in every assault the U.S. Marines conducted in the Pacific on Guadalcanal‚ Tarawa‚ Peleiu‚ and Iwo Jima from 1942 to 1945. They served in all six Marine divisions‚ Marine parachute units and Marine Raider battalions‚ transmitting important messages by radio and telephone in their native language—a code that the Japanese never broke during the war. Philip Johnston‚ a former missionary’s son who once lived on the Navajo Reservation was
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communication needs to be: * Clear. * Concise. * Concrete. * Correct. * Coherent. * Complete. * Courteous. In this article‚ we look at each of the 7 Cs of Communication‚ and we’ll illustrate each element with both good and bad examples. 1. Clear When writing or speaking to someone‚ be clear about your goal or message. What is your purpose in communicating with this person? If you’re not sure‚ then your audience won’t be sure either. To be clear‚ try to minimize the
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Good to Great: Responding to Change. I think that Jim Collins’ book is essential for future entrepreneurs‚ managers‚ and leaders in the Philippines. The tips given by the author are useful in the dynamic‚ ever-changing‚ and constantly fluctuating business environment of the Philippines. Jim Collins described the kind of leader who can address these changes as a Level 5 leader "a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will." The Level 5 leader is not the "corporate savior" or "turnaround
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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 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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