The Roadmap to Greatness and Success

Applying the Lessons of the book “Good to Great” by Jim Collins

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Context: I started a sort of book club project. I’m calling it “Seeker’s Society”.

The Book

“Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t” by Jim Collins

TL;DR

• One Word — Discipline
• One Sentence — Explore how companies can achieve long-term success and become truly great organizations.
• One Paragraph — In “Good to Great,” Jim Collins and his team of researchers try to answer the question of what makes a company truly great. They identified a set of characteristics and practices that separate the good companies from the great ones. They found that the key to a company’s success is not a specific strategy or visionary leader, but rather a combination of disciplined people, a disciplined thought process, and a disciplined action.

“Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.” — Jim Collins

Brief Analisys

In the book, Collins and his team identified a set of criteria that distinguish “good” companies from “great” companies.