Good to Great

Written in 2001 by Jim Collins and published by HarperBusiness.

Review

Jim Collins asks the question, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?"

In pursuit of the answer to this great question, he and a team found over a thousand companies who had made measurable improvements in performance. They then apply criteria for success on them all and find only a few, including Fannie Mae, Gillette, Walgreens, and Wells Fargo who applied these criteria to move to greatness.

Collins discusses the common traits that helped these organizations sustain the greatest success of all the businesses they researched.

To its credit it provides not only the stories of these successes but a road map to success. At the heart of his message is that disciplined people who act in a disciplined way find greatness.

How Best Year Yet Can Help

We agree and use these lessons with each of our clients. In fact, many of our messages are the same because we have seen these lessons come to life, over and again, with our clients.

What makes our Team Program useful and practical is that it takes these ideas and findings and shows a business leader or manager exactly how to take each team in the business through a yearlong program to move from good to great. Our system requires the discipline Collins discovered in order to achieve success.

Our system targets, monitors and focuses on the precise results, about which the business needs to be disciplined in order to achieve 'greatness'.

In addition, Best Year Yet provides the vital ingredient of team and personal transformation as the essential achievement to attain lasting success.