‘Good to Great’
 |
| Good to Great |
Originally
published: October 16, 2001
Author:
Jim Collins
Pages:
320
Genre:
Non-fiction
Subject:
Corporate strategy
Book Summary 'Good to Great' :
According
to the author
If you are
good at something and you don't have the will to become better, then you will
never be good to great.
The author
also says
Good is the
Enemy of Great...
When we
become good at something or when a company is great, the focus is not on what
to do, but what to avoid.
The author analyzed the data of many companies to reveal the secret of their
success and explained the essence of one word and that is Discipline, and
because of this one direction, any company will one day become a great company.
Just because
you spend a lot of time doing one thing doesn't mean you're getting too much
done.
That means you are not the best at that job and if you are not then you cannot
think of becoming the best.
Culture and Discipline you must follow.
And technology will never make you great.
These are only tools, which will help in visionary work.
If a two-horse
race is started, one horse will be the winner and the other horse will be a
dark horse who will win the next races with hard work later on.
Entering the
race does not necessarily mean winning,
which will prove you to be a fair and fair judge.
Sometimes a great leader makes the company a winner by losing himself.
Which acts as the key secret of the company.
Many people
think that Luck plays a big role in the quick success of the company but
according to the author,
there is no such thing as luck, calling your meal time Bad Luck is just an
excuse.
It is
important to first confirm where a bus will go,
whether the right person is sitting on the bus.
And a great person is a leader who selects very well,
and puts people on his team who are right because for them the leader adopts a
different policy.
Neither plan can be implemented.
Every
company must hire great people from other companies to be their best and
motivating those people to work and firing lazy or unproductive people is not
an easy task.
3 steps must be followed to do this in a productive way.
1. If there
is a doubt about someone who is not going to be able to do a very effective job
with him,
then it is necessary to wait a little before hiring another person very quickly
because an effective person may already be created.
2. If one
has to change, one has to act.
3. You will
give your full effect to get the Biggest Opportunity or you will give your full
effect to solve the problem.
A great
leader must know how to balance official work and family time because spending
great family time also helps a lot in achieving official targets.
For a
company to be good to great, two things must be focused on,
first of all considering all the issues with reality and making all the
decisions of the company to work with deep and freedom.
When someone
is faced with a real problem, they have to make an instant decision.
Create a set
of rules for how you want to do a task that will help make your work more
effective.
Time and effect are very important to be great,
because there are many small steps that will surely help you become a great
leader.
A great
leader, however, works with a to-do list,
which gives him good output in a very short period of time,
because he knows very well that now not only hard work,
but time is limited, so he has to rely on smart work.
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