From “Good To Great” To GONE
The first six weeks of 2009 were not kind to the reputation of Jim Collins’ business bible, Good To Great. Performance issues with at least five of the eleven chronicled Good to Great companies have hit the headlines. G2G financial service companies Wells Fargo and Fannie Mae are seeing their darkest days. On January 9, […]
Filling Your “Good to Great” Bus
Your passengers and their placement can determine your success. It has been said that business leaders evolve into one of three categories: ▪ Inspired ▪ Complacent ▪ Desperate In 2001, author Jim Collins provided the inspired with a business bible for pursuing greatness, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t. […]
Pursuit of “Level 5” Leadership
In the business best seller Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t, author Jim Collins explores common elements to eleven publicly traded companies that made a transformation from good performance to at least fifteen years of outperforming the market by a factor of seven. If good is the enemy of […]
Strategic Pursuit of Greatness – Step 1
If you can’t define it, how will you achieve it? In the business best seller Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t, author Jim Collins explores the common elements of eleven publicly traded companies that made a transformation from good performance to at least fifteen years of outperforming the market […]
Pursuit of Greatness and The Law of Process
The Law of Process The Law of Process is a developmental model that applies to every process from learning to tie your shoes to building sustained greatness. Continuous development involves moving through successive quadrants on a continuous progression of growth. In the terms of this model, when we settle for good, we have crossed The […]
Good is the Enemy of Great
Why is it so easy to settle for good? The title of this briefing, “Good is the Enemy of Great” is the first sentence of Jim Collins’ business best seller, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t. The book has provided benchmarks for many of today’s inspired leaders. The author […]