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While it is not the only leadership method we found in our research great by choice delineates fully six sets of findings 20mile march is the crucial starting point. Good to great companies are rigorous, only their best staff dont need to worry about getting fired. Successful habits of visionary companies good to great, book 2. Good to great jim collins hardcover harpercollins publishers. Built to last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature. This is how the author sets off a riveting journey explaining the findings from his and his teams half a decade of research in the conquest of how to make good. Good to great this book addresses a single question. Read good to great why some companies make the leap.
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