Book Titles

Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t

By Jim Collins

Year Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 978-0066620992
Categories: Change, Success, Transformation

58 Quotes Found

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Good to Great:

When used right, technology becomes an accelerator of momentum, not a creator of it.

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Good to Great:

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

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Good to Great:

Throughout business history, early technology pioneers rarely prevail in the end.

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Good to Great:

…thoughtless reliance on technology is a liability, not an asset.

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Good to Great:

’Crawl, walk, run’ can be a very effective approach, even during times of rapid and radical technology change.

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Good to Great:

…lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough.

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Good to Great:

Tremendous power exists in the fact of continued improvement and the delivery of results.

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Good to Great:

As people decide among themselves to turn the fact of potential into the fact of results, the goal almost sets itself.

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Good to Great:

What do the right people want more than almost anything else? They want to be part of a winning team.

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Good to Great:

…the drive for mergers and acquisitions comes less from sound reasoning and more from the fact that doing deals is a much more exciting way to spend your day than doing actual work. – Peter Drucker

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