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Chipping Away at the Myth of "Good to Great"

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Jim Collins' famous book now stands as close to a modern management Bible as exists. But Todd Sattersten of 800CEORead looks at a series of recent takedowns on Good to Great and concludes "there is enough evidence now to force us to reconsider Good To Great as the pinnacle management book of this decade." Sattersten has been a defender of "Good to Great," and he isn't abandoning it entirely. In fact, he cites Robert Sutton, who is ambivalent about "Good to Great," finding it lacking in many ways, but also says "the simple and compelling ideas in Collins' book are probably mostly right and have probably helped a lot of leaders and managers." Collins has a new book coming out in May. Will you buy it?

posted by Michael Fitzgerald
April 30, 2009 @ 7:16 pm

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