Now I am reading the book with a title "Good To Great - Why Some Companies Make the Leap.... and Others Don't" by Jim Collins. Such a wonderful book. Full of useful contents. I read every words and sentences, not to miss a single one. It is a comprehensive book and covers the issues that I used to wonder and think about for quite some time.
This book is about the findings of the 5 year research which was done by the author and his team. They started by identifying companies that made the leap from good results to great results and sustained those results for at least 15 years. They compared these companies to a carefully selected control group of comparison companies that failed to make the leap, or they did but failed to sustain it. They then compared the "good to great" companies to the comparison companies to discover the essential and distinguishing factors at work. The result of their research is very astonishing. Unbelievable.
The author mentioned (on page 5):
"Our five-year quest yielded many insights, a number of them surprising and quite contrary to conventional wisdom, but one giant conclusion stands above the other: We believe that almost any organization can substantially improve its stature and performance, perhaps even become great, if it conscientiously applies the framework of ideas we've uncovered" .
I will try to update the contents of the books together with my personal reflections from time to time.
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