
But it should enable competence to become excellence.” It will not enable mediocrity to become competence. “This carefully researched and well-written book disproves most of the current management hype-from the cult of the superhuman CEO to the cult of IT to the acquisitions and merger mania.

I actually read them in reverse order due to an odd combination of circumstances, but the three books together tell a very interesting story" The first book is "Built to Last", and the final book is "How the Mighty Fall". But you may not know that this is the middle book of a three book series that shares a common methodology and should be read as a group. "This is the big smash hit from Jim Collins, and you probably don't need me to promote this this book. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Why those who do frequent restructuring fail to make the leap.Technology Accelerators: How good-to-great companies think differently about technology.A Culture of Discipline: The alchemy of great results.

The Hedgehog Concept: Finding your three circles, to transcend the curse of competence.Level 5 Leadership: A surprising style, required for greatness.Over five years, Jim Collins and his research team have analyzed the histories of 28 companies, discovering why some companies make the leap and others don't.

Built To Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.īut what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? Are there those that convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? If so, what are the distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?
