From Excellent to Excellence

Author: James Collins
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: This book is another best-selling management book following the mega-hit Good to Great! Business Week Top 10 Business Books of 2001; Amazon's Top Business Book of 2001, a research result from the best-selling author of Good to Great that took five years to complete and was called "worth billions" by its creator. This book tells every manager and employee: Because you are excellent, it is difficult to be great! Just like Good to Great, Good to Great is a book that managers and CEOs need to read repeatedly over the years。——Amazon Online Store Without a doubt, all managers will benefit from this book。——Publishers Weekly Collins' findings will leave every manager both shocked and exhilarated。——Booklist Another masterpiece from the best-selling author of Good to Great: Collins outlines the grand blueprint for how excellent companies achieve the leap to great companies. Collins and his team of 21 conducted five years of research, during which only 11 companies—such as Gillette and Bank of America—managed to make the leap from excellent performance to great performance, while comparing them with those that failed to make the leap to analyze the underlying mechanisms. Collins believes that "if almost all companies adopt and rigorously implement these principles, they can significantly improve their performance and even become great companies," because the answer to moving from good to great "is not limited by time or geography and universally applies to any organization." Collins and his research team spent 10.5 person-years reading and systematically organizing 6,000 articles, recording over 2,000 pages of interview content, creating 384 gigabytes of computer data, collecting all articles from 28 companies for the past 50 years or more, and conducting extensive qualitative and quantitative analyses to arrive at the astonishing and inspiring answers on how to transform a company from good to great.