Comments on: Business book summary #8: “Good to Great” by Jim Collins

By: marc

marc — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:06:48 +0000

Jim Collins book is good but not great. It is vague and looking back at the content he seems to be off in his research. 3 of his 11 companies imploded-Circuit City, Fannie Mae and Gilette. Humility is over rated in Level 5.

By: cynthia

cynthia — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:53:59 +0000

Super great summary. Thanks

By: stevecunningham

stevecunningham — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:34:25 +0000

You sure can. Type “readitfor.me” into the search box in iTunes and it should be the only result. Let me know how that works for you.

By: stevecunningham

stevecunningham — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:34:25 +0000

You sure can. Type “readitfor.me” into the search box in iTunes and it should be the only result. Let me know how that works for you.

By: douglassemenick

douglassemenick — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:08:26 +0000

can we get this on pod casts?

By: Yves Beaudoin MBA

Yves Beaudoin MBA — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:47:28 +0000

Excellent «résumé»!

Thanks!

By: steve

steve — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:40:24 +0000

Ash – thanks for the kind words! Thanks for pointing out that mistake – I resolve to use persevere correctly in all future episodes

By: Good to Great in 12 ½ Minutes | Insights Four51

Good to Great in 12 ½ Minutes | Insights Four51 — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:03:52 +0000

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By: Ash

Ash — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:56:58 +0000

Thanks again Steve –

I appreciate these wee summaries very much.

Sorry to be a pedant, but…

You can persevere TO (until) the the end, but it doesn’t really make sense to say that you will preserve IN the end:

persevere |ˌpərsəˈvi(ə)r|
verb [ intrans. ]
continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no prospect of success : his family persevered with his treatment.

Keep up the great work – I’d like to recommend William Isaacs ‘Dialogue and the art of thinking together” for precis

with all good wishes
Ash

By: steve

steve — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:10:50 +0000

Thanks Rob! I agree – in light of our economic reality (and also the technological reality) this really is a great return to the foundations of what we do.