are looked at separately as a clump": Unsustained Comparisons Gillette Company (now a Procter & Gamble brand)Ī&P (declared bankruptcy in 20 all supermarkets sold or shut down in 2015)Ĭollins includes 6 examples of companies that did not sustain their change to greatness. The Good to Great companies Great companies and their comparators Ĭollins finds eleven examples of "great companies" and comparators, similar in industry-type and opportunity, but which failed to achieve the good-to-great growth shown in the great companies: The book was published on October 16, 2001.
The book was a bestseller, selling four million copies and going far beyond the traditional audience of business books. Collins that describes how companies transition from being good companies to great companies, and how most companies fail to make the transition. and Others Don't is a management book by Jim C.
Building upon the flywheel concept introduced in his groundbreaking classic Good to Great, Jim Collins teaches listeners how to create their own flywheel, how to accelerate the flywheel’s momentum, and how to stay on the flywheel in shifting markets and during times of turbulence.Ĭombining research from his Good to Great labs and case studies from organizations like Amazon, Vanguard, and the Cleveland Clinic that have turned their flywheels with outstanding results, Collins demonstrates that successful organizations can disrupt the world around them - and reach unprecedented success - by employing the flywheel concept.Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap.
It is the act of turning the flywheel, slowly gaining momentum and eventually reaching a breakthrough. The key to business success is not a single innovation or one plan. A companion guide to the number one best-selling Good to Great, focused on implementation of the flywheel concept, one of Jim Collins’ most memorable ideas that has been used across industries and the social sectors and with start-ups.