Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, Collins concludes that good to great can and does happen. In this book, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations remain only good. Rigorously supported by evidence, his findings are surprising - at times even shocking - to the modern mind. Good to Great achieves a rare distinction: a management book full of vital ideas that reads as well as a fast-paced novel.

　　《从优秀到卓越》是超级畅销书《基业长青》的作者柯林斯的又一力作，它描绘了优秀公司实现向卓越公司跨越的宏伟蓝图。《基业长青》揭示了公司保持卓越的秘诀，但书中提到的公司自始至终都出类拔萃。对于那些业绩平平的公司，如何才能实现从优秀到卓越的跨越呢？是不是卓越的企业都有所谓的特殊“卓越气质”？发展的瓶颈是不是真的难以突破？
　　针对这一问题，柯林斯和他的研究小组历时5年，阅读并系统整理了6000篇文章，记录了2000多页的专访内容，创建了 3.84亿字节的电脑数据，收集了28家公司过去50年，甚至更早的所有文章，进行了大范围的定性和定量分析，得出了如何使公司从优秀到卓越的令人惊异而振奋的答案。
　　柯林斯发现，公司从优秀到卓越，跟从事的行业是否在潮流之中没有关系，事实上，即使是一个从事传统行业的企业，即使它最初默默无闻，它也可能卓越。柯林斯提出了一整套观点，“只要采纳并认真贯彻，几乎所有的公司都能极大改善自己的经营状况，甚至可能成为卓越公司”。

作者简介

Jim Collins left the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1995 to set up a management laboratory in Colarado. He has worked with senior executives and CEOs from over 100 corporations including Starbucks Coffee, Time Warner, Johnson & Johnson and E-loan.com. He is co-author of the best-selling Built to Last - which has been on the Business Week bestseller list for 57 months, sold 500,000 copies in the US alone and has been translated into 17 languages.

　　吉姆·柯林斯，著名商业畅销书作家。早年在斯坦福大学商学院从事教学与研究工作，并获得杰出教学奖。1996年，创办了自己的管理研究所，曾在默克公司、星巴克、时代明镜集团、麦肯锡公司等世界知名公司任高级经理和CEO。
　　他的另外一本书《基业长青》也晃公认的一部经典商业著作。他的著作被《财富》、《经济学人》、《商业周刊》、《今日美国》、《哈佛商业评论》等杂志广泛报道，引起巨大反响。

精彩书评

In 1996 Jim Collins, the author of the US business bestseller Built to Last, was challenged to think more deeply about what makes a great company. 'The companies you wrote about were, for the most part, always great,' came a chance comment, at a conference. 'But what about the vast majority of companies that wake up partway through life and realise they're good, but not great?' This seed of an idea was to grow to occupy Collins, formerly an academic, for the next five years. From his 'management laboratory' in Boulder, Colorado, he set to work to find out whether a merely good company could become great - or whether the disease of 'just being good' was incurable. His first step was to assemble a group of 21 researchers, who then spent six months in intense financial analysis, sifting out from the Fortune 500 list a set of 11 'good-to-great' companies. In the years 1965 to 1995, these all showed 15-year cumulative stock returns at or below the general stock market; then, after a transition point, cumulative returns at least three times the market over the next 15 years. Collins also selected two sets of comparison companies: direct (those in the same industries which did not achieve great results) and unsustained (those which shifted from good to great, and back to good). That was just the start of a myth-exploding research project, now presented in this clearly written and easily read book. It shows that companies that made the 'great' grade rarely had celebrity leaders - in fact, writes Collins, 'going for a high-profile outside change agent is negatively correlated with a sustained transformation', precisely because celebrities are more often concerned with their own egos than the enduring calibre of the company they run. Instead, individuals who run 'great' companies tend to be self-effacing and limelight-shy. Other factors for greatness are shown to be the ability to recruit the right people at an early stage, maintain faith in an end goal while confronting hard facts, develop a culture of discipline, apply carefully selected technologies, build momentum and establish a purpose which goes beyond simply making money. This is a fascinating study, drawing on research insights which apply to other areas of life as well as business.
--Kirkus UK

前言/序言

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　　本书的手稿即将完成之际，我来到位于科罗拉多博尔德的埃尔多拉多一斯普林斯峡谷。这个峡谷就在我家南面。我沿着一条陡峭多石的山间小路登上山顶，在我最喜爱的一个休息地驻足。远方腹地依然是一派银妆素裹。正在那时．一个奇怪的问题突然闪现在我脑海中：要出多少钱才能让我放弃出版《从优秀到卓越》这本书呢？
　　这个问题的确很有趣，因为此前我已花了5年时间用于调研和撰写本书。不是说给多少钱我都会不为所动，而是当我的思绪跨越上亿美元的门槛后，已经到了我该沿原路返回的时候了。不过，即使有那么多的钱也不能令我放弃这个项目。本来就乐于传道授业的我，无法想象如果不能把自己的知识与全世界的好学之士一同分享会是怎样。而本书也正是在这种学而不厌、诲人不倦的精神鼓舞下才得以问世。
　　在度过几个月僧侣式的隐居生活后．我很乐意得到人们的反馈，了解本书哪些部分能给他们带来益处，哪些不能。我希望大家能从本书中获益，并将学到的知识运用于大到公司事务、社会事业．小到生活琐事的处理之中。
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