Book Summary: Good to Great This article is based on the following book:
Good to Great
"Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't"
Jim Collins, co-author of Built to Last'
Random House Business Books, London
300 pagesExplore what goes into a company's transformation from mediocre to excellent. Based on hard evidence and volumes of data, the book author (Jim Collins) and his team uncover timeless principles on how the good-to-great companies like Abbott, Circuit City, Fannie Mae, Gillette, Kimberly-Clark, Kroger, Nucor, Philip Morris, Pitney Bowes, Walgreens, and Wells Fargo produced sustained great results and achieved enduring greatness, evolving into companies that were indeed Built to Last'. The Collins team selected 2 sets of comparison companies:

Direct comparisons Companies in the same industry with the same resources and opportunities as the good-to-great group but showed no leap in performance, which were: Upjohn, Silo, G ... Read more »