Book Club: My Top 5 Takeaways from Good to Great by Jim Collins

Published: Nov. 12, 2018, 2 p.m.

Simply put, if you\u2019re in business either for yourself or working for someone else and want to become a better entrepreneur, businessperson, worker, boss, or even, I would argue, a better person, you want you read this book.

In short, it provides a compelling and comprehensive answer to the question of why some companies excel and others don\u2019t, and it\u2019s the result of a tremendous amount of in-the-field research and scientific analysis, not a single author\u2019s experiences or opinions.

One of the reasons I recommend Good to Great so highly is it deals with the strategic level of business and work, where decisions carry far more weight and influence than those made in the trenches.

In fact, sound strategic thinking is probably the ultimate success \u201chack\u201d there is because no amount of hard work can transform a lousy strategy into a screaming success, and nothing succeeds like a brilliant strategy executed competently.

I believe that applies not just to business, but to all areas of life. Assuming you can do the types of things most people don\u2019t want to do, the more bright ideas you can generate and implement, the more your life is going to be filled with hope, excitement, and reward.

And this book can help by showing you how to make more good strategic decisions than bad ones.

As you\u2019ll see in my takeaways, Good to Great has heavily influenced my own decision making particularly in my businesses, and to great effect.

As a matter of fact, I\u2019d ascribe much of my success as an author and entrepreneur to the \u201chedgehog\u201d and \u201cflywheel\u201d concepts alone, which have informed much of the direction of my work and companies for a number of years now.

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