Summary of Jim Collins's Good To Great And The Social Sectors

By IRB Media

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#1 Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the main reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools, governments, or companies because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

#2 The good-to-great examples that made the final cut attained extraordinary results.

#3 The quest to find the secrets of greatness began with a single company, Walgreens, and its transformation from a mediocre company to a great one. The five-year study yielded many insights, many of which were surprising and contrary to conventional wisdom.

#4 I began to assemble a team of researchers. We found eleven good-to-great examples, including Fannie Mae and Walgreens, which surprised us. It is possible to turn good into great in the most unlikely of situations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822529090

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Insights on Jim Collins's Good To Great And The Social Sectors

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the main reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools, governments, or companies because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

#2

The good-to-great examples that made the final cut attained extraordinary results.

#3

The quest to find the secrets of greatness began with a single company, Walgreens, and its transformation from a mediocre company to a great one. The five-year study yielded many insights, many of which were surprising and contrary to conventional wisdom.

#4

I began to assemble a team of researchers. We found eleven good-to-great examples, including Fannie Mae and Walgreens, which surprised us. It is possible to turn good into great in the most unlikely of situations.

#5

We took the most important step in the entire research effort: contrasting the good-to-great companies to a carefully selected set of comparison companies. The crucial question is not what the good-to-great companies have in common, but what distinguishes them from the comparison companies.

#6

We developed all the concepts in this book by making empirical deductions directly from the data. We did not begin this project with a theory to test or prove. We sought to build a theory from the ground up, derived directly from the evidence.

#7

The good-to-great companies did not focus on what to do to become great, but on what not to do and what to stop doing. They did not have a name, tag line, launch event, or program to signify their transformations.

#8

The final framework of concepts is not my opinion, but rather