Good to Great CD: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t
By admin | March 27th, 2010 | Category: Books on Economics | 5 comments
- ISBN13: 9780694526086
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Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how fantastic companies triumph over time and how longterm sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.But what about companies including the intention of are not born including fantastic DNA? How can excellent companies, mediocre companies, even terrible companies achieve enduring greatness? Are there those including the intention of convert lingering-term roughness or of poorer quality into lingering-term superiority? If so, what are… More >>
Excellent to Fantastic CD: Why Approximately Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t
This book has a lot of conservative religious bigotry and cult-like zeal in it. Not to bring up, it is full of drama, evangelized tales : “16 years of struggle, Mockler crumpled to the floor, struck dead by a massive heart attack”. Maybe the author must have place yet more drama and said: a tsunami came and Mockler was carried through it in the shadow of holy spirit.
We must build a society of tolerance and respect for all, not preach such shrouded despise ideologies as delivered discreetly in the book all over.
Rating: 1 / 5
SINCE READING THIS BOOK, I’VE WANTED TO SEND A COPY TO 3 chief executive’S OF COMPANIES I RECENTLY HAD BAD EXPERIENCES. THE PROBLEM IS I (THE CUSTOMER) WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO GET THIS BOOK TO THEM! THREE BAD EXPERIENCES WITH BIG COMPANIES AND IT IS NOW SO PLAIN TO ME THAT THE LEADER OF THESE COMPANIES NEED TO READ THIS BOOK. I THINK ABOUT THIS BOOK OFTEN WHILE RUNNING MY OWN COMPANY. IF YOU ARE A BUSINESS LEADER OR BUSINESS OWNER, I STRONGLY SUGGEST THIS BOOK!
Rating: 1 / 5
This book would embarrass the average initially grader! Its so superficial its deepness has to be measured in microns. It proves including the intention of lots of idiots went to fantastic schools.
Rating: 1 / 5
Its very simple why MOST companies don’t become fantastic. They dont want to !! Its alot cheaper to just edge out your competition (if you even have to), than to start a fee war, or any other kind of war. Also, most companies are clueless, since they cant tell the difference between an investment, and a cost. They would rather not invest in their people since, they any might take the jobs of the one who taught them, or go somewhere else, and make paid a privileged salary, from a company including the intention of didnt have to invest in them, so then including the intention of other company can then steal what they didnt have to invest in. Lets face it, the company including the lowest cost wins. Including the intention of one statement clarifies all else. There will never be greatness as lingering as this is right. The rush to the botton, trumps the rush to the top.
Rating: 2 / 5
Let me clarify…
Consulting firms have their place in the business world. These organizations abound including brainpower armed including well ahead academic degrees. Including the intention of’s wonderful. Most of the time, these firms do a fantastic job of providing insightful answers to problems including the intention of bedevil management. When management is too close to the trees to be able to objectively evaluate the challenges confronting them, consultants can be a huge help.
What’s the connection? This book and its companion follow-up best-seller, “Built to Last,” were written by consultants. Mr. Jim Collins, a former McKinsey consultant, authored this singlehandedly and, for the second, co-authored it including Mr. Porras.
“The Halo Effect” was written by a business professor named Rosenzweig.
The Halo Effect: … and the Eight Other Business Delusions Including the intention of Deceive Managers
Professor Rosenzweig held “Excellent to Fantastic” and “Built to Last” as the fundamental subjects of his argument about the “halo effect.”
The excellent professor points out including the intention of both tomes used hindsight to unearth the success factors including the intention of made the companies in their respective lists such standouts. The problem including including the intention of approach, Rosenzweig points out, is including the intention of hindsight–as the saying goes–is 20/20.
Take two boys who grow up in the same village. One becomes the company president while the other never rises beyond the rank of a junior manager. From the vantage point of the villagers, could they have foreseen who was vacant to become what? Maybe but probably not. On the other hand, if including the intention of question was tackled by early from the present and then having their careers retraced back to their youth, the factors including the intention of made them into what they are can be easily learned.
Including the intention of’s the fallacy inherent in basing one’s analysis on hindsight. You’ll always come up including the answers.
Are they the right answers? Not necessarily. Assume, for example, including the intention of the president rose through the financial ranks of the company. Does the fact including the intention of he graduated including an accounting degree constitute a valid success factor? Of course not. If including the intention of accounting degree was present in the biographies of 99 other company presidents, does including the intention of currently make it a valid success factor? I still reckon not. And yet including the intention of’s how the authors of both books presented their case. They used an expanded sample population and retraced the path of all company including the intention of made it to all book’s list. They then isolated the factors including the intention of appeared in every company’s path. Aha!, they said. These are the common factors including the intention of propelled these companies into our list. Currently, they stated, we know what works. From including the intention of, the authors proceeded to make broad extrapolations about how the reader might use these factors to make their own companies successful.
I did what the professor did. I checked the standing of most of the companies in this initially book. I came up including a review of mixed consequences. Using the same measure including the intention of the book used, approximately companies were doing well, most had become average, and a few were lagging.
An even simpler way to check the validity of these so-called success factors is to compare the list in both books. Indeed a company including the intention of had transitioned from excellent to fantastic would stay fantastic enough to ensure including the intention of it was built to last. Right?
Incorrect.
I have to agree including the professor. There is no success formula embodied in the advice proffered by the book. Those nuggets of advice are misleading. The advice is misleading since their source–the research consequences–are flawed. The research consequences are flawed since the research assumption is flawed. What is including the intention of assumption? It differs slightly for these two books but it could be roughly stated as such: “Isolate the common factors behind the success of these companies–the ones including the intention of made it to our list. Extrapolate the lessons from those few common factors and write a best-seller.” Or two.
And including the intention of’s exactly what he/they did!
I’ve read both books and I’m certain the reader will learn new things from all one. But, after reading “The Halo Effect” (and agreeing including it), I know currently including the intention of neither “Excellent to Fantastic” nor “Built to Last” reveal any excellent, fantastic, or everlasting secrets of business success.
Addendum:
Jim Collins is an alumnus of the prestigious consulting firm, McKinsey & Co. The firm publishes The McKinsey Weekly, a newsletter akin to the Harvard Business Review. The initially issue of the 2007 newsletter (2007 number 1) contains an adaptation of the book, “The Halo Effect.” The article (mercifully) omits mentioning any of these two books, maybe since its author was one of their own.
Rating: 2 / 5