Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins and James C. Collins

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	Comment before you read: Was given to me by someone at work, who prefaced it with "i'm not a reader but this is the one book i blew through and enjoyed". Though i promised myself i would avoid Business Books, this one gets mentioned all the time in Inc Magazine, and I'll avoid the trap of completely consuming every word (and burning out before 2/3 of the book since this things tend to repeat themselves) and just strategically skim through it.
	Comment after you read: Not too bad for a business book. Though the same concepts were repeated over and over again (hire great people, find the one thing your company can do great, stay focused on that one great thing), there were some good company profiles and stories to go along with it. I read most of it, skimming over the parts about Fannie Mae (since it was written in 2001 long before the Banking scandals of 2008-09) and Merck (don't agree with the line: "we are in this to make people healthy not make money", i say bullshit).

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11 months ago bigmike finished reading Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins and James C. Collins. For 7 days bigmike read 300 pages at 43 pages a day.

Before Thought:

Was given to me by someone at work, who prefaced it with "i'm not a reader but this is the one book i blew through and enjoyed". Though i promised myself i would avoid Business Books, this one gets mentioned all the time in Inc Magazine, and I'll avoid the trap of completely consuming every word (and burning out before 2/3 of the book since this things tend to repeat themselves) and just strategically skim through it.

After Thought:

Not too bad for a business book. Though the same concepts were repeated over and over again (hire great people, find the one thing your company can do great, stay focused on that one great thing), there were some good company profiles and stories to go along with it. I read most of it, skimming over the parts about Fannie Mae (since it was written in 2001 long before the Banking scandals of 2008-09) and Merck (don't agree with the line: "we are in this to make people healthy not make money", i say bullshit).