10/03/11
By Sreedhar Kajeepeta
A decade ago, in all the business and technology journals, there was a lot of talk about Jim Collins’s seminal book on corporate leadership/management, Good to Great. Through those discussions, we all explored the findings of five years of research from Collins and 21 of his associates. One of the key takeaways of the very insightful analysis that permeates the book was the simple yet compelling observation that companies that consciously sought greatness and actually got there (“cumulative stock returns of => 6.9 times the general market growth” was the yardstick used in the research) showed a paradoxical combination of humility and willpower.
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