“Good to Great” by Jim Collins
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007I’m currently reading Good to Great by Jim Collins. I found out about it through a recommendation from Neal Harmon. It is one of his favorites.
Collins and his team do an empirical study of a group of companies that made the transition from average to exceptional. They compare data from other companies in the same time periods and markets. They look for and report on the factors that appear to have made the difference.
I’m half way through the book, so I will wait until I’m finished to review it. But I will say, however, that Collins’s empirical approach is very refreshing. The book isn’t filled with theories and philosophies–only interpretation of data. The numbers tell the story.