Summary

A study of how a company goes from average to excellent. The author spent five years studying twenty-eight companies. The book is based on nearly 6,000 articles, 2,000 interviews and volumes of computer data. It describes what the good-to-great companies have in common that distinguishes them from the others.

The Author

Jim Collins is a coauthor of Built to Last, a bestseller for over five years with a million copies in print. He was on the faculty of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award. He now runs a management research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado and advises business and civic leaders.