Good to Great
Jim Collins
The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.
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🟢 Developer Verdict
This management study distills the specific practices and leadership traits that enable companies to achieve and sustain long-term excellence.
Read this if
- ✓ You seek insights into non-charismatic leadership for growth.
- ✓ You want to understand how companies make the leap to greatness.
- ✓ You are an aspiring or current leader in a tech organization.
Skip this for now if
- ✗ You are looking for hands-on technical coding tutorials.
- ✗ You are already deeply familiar with business strategy principles.
- ✗ You prefer concise articles over in-depth business studies.
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📊 Why Developers Recommend
It helps developers think more intentionally about professional growth.
Cited by 5 different developers, each bringing their own experience and perspective.
Praised for offering a distinctive viewpoint that challenges conventional thinking and broadens understanding.
💬 What Developers Say
"Good to Great is a must-read if you are looking for the concepts that help many companies to become significantly better than the rest."
— sandordargo · The best 9 books I read in 2020 · Dec 12, 2020
"Good to Great is a must-read if you are looking for the concepts that help many companies to become significantly better than the rest."
— sandordargo · Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by Jim Collins · Dec 26, 2020
"In his ‘Good to Great‘ bestseller book, Jim Collins argues that being charismatic isn’t really an essential trait of a transformative engineering leader."
— waydevco · What’s the Difference Between Engineering Leadership and Engineering Management? · Nov 20, 2020
Based on 7 developer article mentions
👤 Who Should Read This
Best for
- • Senior engineers deepening their expertise
- • Developers looking to grow their careers
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