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  • By: Jim Collins
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  • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Can a good company become a great one? If so, how?

After a five-year research project, Jim Collins concludes that good to great can and does happen. In this book, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organisation to make the leap from good to great while other organisations remain only good. Rigorously supported by evidence, his findings are surprising - at times even shocking - to the modern mind.

Good to Great achieves a rare distinction: a management book full of vital ideas that reads as well as a fast-paced novel. It is widely regarded as one of the most important business books ever written.

©2020 Jim Collins (P)2020 Penguin Audio

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A change of Paradigm

An eye opening listen detailing how companies can take themselves to the next level. Yes most of the companies are no longer in business but as he states its the principles they have discovered that stage companies out the monotonous average "good" status.

I recommend listening to this audio book at 1.5x speed it follows much nicer and drags a little less

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Good to great is great.

loved it. very insightful and informative. challenges you to rethink many concepts you thought right.

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Not Good or Great - 50% talking about itself

This book spends so much time talking about itself, almost boaatfully. It's dull and repetitive.

There is a small part of it that is useful, the rest is just padding.

After about 3 chapters Jim tells us that he'll give us bullets at the end of each chapter reminding us what was just talked about in the chapter... Padding to remind us about padding. Painful.

Take the Level 5 detail. It explains what Level 5 managers are then does the same in about 5 different ways, then explains again 3 times where companies failed.

This book could literally be cut in half and become far more useful. It would turn the book from fair to good.



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Awesome book really enjoyed it 🙌🙌

Well written book. I really enjoyed it ☺ will read again to let it sink in properly

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History has not been kind to this book

The extensive praising of Fannie Mae seen through restrospect made the book frustrating at times

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to much empty talking

i was expecting more but all i could get is 2-3 good ideas rest is going in circle

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Very strong

Really useful anecdotes and use of counter factual examples helps bring to life the point.

Good vignettes support the argument.

Sometimes a bit repetitive- but easy to skip those parts

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Ironically not even good

35 minutes in and I cannot stand this narrator, his voice is grating, unnecessarily percussive without proper annunciation to the point where many words are inaudible. He honestly could benefit from some public speaking training. This topic is important but the story so far hasn’t started, the author seems to love his own narrative so much that he needs a 35 minute preface. I don’t think I can bring myself to read the book

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An interesting business book that seems to be unaware of its own biases

This is an interesting book, and I’m glad I listened to it, however all the way through I’ve had a nagging feeling that the researchers missed one or two of their assumptions and biases. There’s a distinct lack of awareness of survivorship bias in the study, too great an emphasis on leadership, And at least twice the book, the book openly admonishes leaders who claimed a lot of their success was down to luck. The study authors don’t seem to have seriously considered the role of chance in the business outcomes, The researchers didn’t fully test their hypothesis in a scientific way. By this, I mean they had a hypothesis, but they didn’t look for examples that disprove the hypothesis, they only looked for patterns and then confirming evidence. They did not look for examples of the same patterns and companies that did not rank as great by their own measure, This mistake can’t be understated, it is a key component of science, the book therefore gives a misleading emphasis on leadership, I don’t believe findings of the book and its research can be considered thorough and valid. Basic insights such as hire good people first are not exactly revelatory, though the research does lend evidence to this maxim. In all, this is an interesting book, and I did take some insights from it, however, it’s not a scientific as a claims to be.

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Good to Great

Great engaging book with loads of practical examples with wide application to all industries and sectors

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