Good to Great
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Good to Great
Jim Collins
10 people recommended it in 8 threads, 2015–2025.
1 commenter pushed back on it — worth reading the threads.
What people on Hacker News said
The points I suggest paying the most attention to are level 5 leadership, the hedgehog concept, the flywheel concept, Kaizen style continuous improvement, how to organize groups of teams to avoid micromanaging, and how to work with a company culture to make decisions supported by real data that tells you what the most effective decisions would be and how to achieve this by choosing concepts to promote to employees in order to guide their decision making.
His concept of "bullets before cannonballs" has stuck with me for every project/job/company.
Focuses on how the organizations are constructed and tries to divine principles that are true across time.
This makes me want to read much more after reading Good to Great.
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