Great Businesses

Making your Business Great – the evidence

Really great organisations all have the features shown in the diagram. It is explained in more detail in this short video.

This is the result of a 3 year research programme run by Jim Collins at Harvard and reported in his book ‘From Good to Great’.
The transformation from merely Good, to Great is possible for any organisation.
The secret is determined action to build up momentum and get to breakthrough.

What is Not important?

Perhaps the most interesting conclusion is that Great organisations do not need charismatic leaders – IN FACT, they are an impediment.

Nor is it a complex bonus scheme

Money is not the answer. As Daniel Pink also explains in his riveting TED talk . As he says:
‘Why do businesses keep on doing something when the evidence shows it doesn’t work?”

But – getting the right people in the right roles is critical

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* Harvard Research: source ‘Good to Great’ – Jim Collins.