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Rethinking Good To Great

N2Growth Blog

I’ve had issues with some of the concepts contained in Jim Collins book Good To Great since it was first released. In being true to my contrarian self, and with rare exception (Peter Drucker, Adam Smith, etc.), I have personally witnessed just about every style of leader both succeed and fail.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

By Jim Collins. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.” Drucker is considered the most influential management thinker ever, and the one who introduced the term “Knowledge Worker.”