词条 | Good to Great | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't | title_orig = | translator = | image = Cover Good 2 Gr8.jpg | image_size = 150px | caption = Front cover | author = Jim C. Collins | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = Corporate strategy | genre = Non-fiction | publisher = William Collins | release_date = October 16, 2001 | english_release_date = | media_type = Hardcover | pages = 320 | isbn = 978-0-06-662099-2 | dewey = 658 21 | congress = HD57.7 .C645 2001 | oclc = 46835556 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't is a management book by Jim C. Collins that describes how companies transition from being good companies to great companies, and how most companies fail to make the transition. The book was published on October 16, 2001. "Greatness" is defined as financial performance several multiples better than the market average over a sustained period. Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. Collins finds the main reason certain companies become great is they narrowly focus the company’s resources on their field of key competence. The book was a bestseller, selling four million copies and going far beyond the traditional audience of business books.[1] WritingCollins used a large team of researchers who studied "6,000 articles, generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transcripts and created 384 megabytes of computer data in a five-year project".[2] Top members of this research team were:
Seven characteristics of companies that went from "good to great"
Great companiesCollins 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:
Unsustained CompaniesCollins includes 6 examples of companies that did not sustain their change to greatness. These companies, "... are looked at separately as a clump":[2]
ResponseThe book was "cited by several members of The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council as the best management book they've read."[3] Publishers Weekly called it "worthwhile", although "many of Collins' perspectives on running a business are amazingly simple and commonsense".[4] Similarly Holt and Cameron state the book provides a "generic business recipe" that ignores "particular strategic opportunities and challenges."[5]Steven D. Levitt noted that some of the companies selected as "great" have since gotten into serious trouble, such as Circuit City and Fannie Mae, while only Nucor had "dramatically outperformed the stock market" and "Abbott Labs and Wells Fargo have done okay". He further states that investing in the portfolio of the 11 companies covered by the book, in the year of 2001, would actually result in underperforming the S&P 500.[6] Levitt concludes that books like this are "mostly backward-looking" and can't offer a guide for the future."[7]Collins reaffirmed that "The books never promised that these companies would always be great, just that they were once great." See also{{Portal|Business}}
References1. ^{{cite news|last=Bryant|first=Adam|title=For This Guru, No Question Is Too Big|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/business/24collins.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all|newspaper=New York Times|date=May 23, 2009}} 2. ^http://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/good-to-great-why-some-companies-make-the-leap-and-others-dont/83046 3. ^{{cite book | author=Alan Murray | title=The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Management | publisher=New York: HarperCollins | year=2010 | pages=11 | isbn=978-0-06-184033-3}} 4. ^1 {{cite news|title=GOOD TO GREAT: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... And Others Don't (Review)|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-662099-2|accessdate=2012-07-13|date=September 3, 2001}} 5. ^{{cite book |last=Holt |first=Douglas |last2=Cameron |first2=Douglas |year=2010 |title=Cultural Strategy |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-958740-7}} 6. ^http://blog.asmartbear.com/business-advice-plagued-by-survivor-bias.html 7. ^{{cite web|last=Levitt|first=Steven D.|title=From Good to Great … to Below Average|url=http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/07/28/from-good-to-great-to-below-average/|work=Freakonomics|date=2008-07-28}} External links
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