Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

What I have found, in my decades of work with many of the top leaders in business, is that we have to do better than good enough. We have to strive for excellence. And that process and way of thinking all begins with developing a caring mindset.

Jim Collins’s Good to Great was released at just the right time. His Hedgehog Concept states that if you can be best at, be passionate about, and make money at one thing in the world, do just that one thing.

Collins and Porras reported preserving many aspects of a small company soul in a large company body. Collins and Porras also found that successful growth was often accomplished by having highly engaged employees led by humble, passionate, home-grown leaders who, in many cases, were neither charismatic nor visionary.