What You Can Learn From Good To Great
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Good To Great is a classic business book, selling over 2 million copies, it has been on the best sellers list for years. Taking over 5 years of research by a group of 20 people, this book provides deffinitive answers for how to make a company Great.
The book essentially answers the question, “How Can I Make A Good Company Great?”.
It is written in an unbiased, expository format, which makes it slightly harder to understand how to apply it. There are still some applications however, on how you can use the principles from Good To Great in your small business.
- Hire Great Employees
If you want your business to succed you must hire only Great employees. Don’t settle for anything less. Make sure that all of your employees will be loyal, hard working, and above all honest.
- Make Yourself Great
If you want to make your employees great, you might as well be a good role model. The employees must know that you are a hard working employee, and that you care greatly about the companies success.
To become a Great leader you must develop the personality of being humble, having high will power, and you must learn to care more about the companies success than you do your own success.
- Make A Difference in the World
Make you and your employees love comming to work, because they know they are making a difference in the world. Provide some service to others, which you and your employees find valuable. This will make your employees enjoy work more, so that they work enthusiastically and thus get more accomplished.
- Don’t Settle for Good
Make your company the BEST at something. Find out what your company can do better than any other company, and do it. If you aren’t the best in your industry, people will stop buying from you, and they will go to the person who is the best. Just make sure that you can do something the best, whether it be your products quality, price, service, or any thing else, just become Great at it and do it.
If you want to make your company succesful I highly reccomend that you read the book Good To Great, and try to apply what you learned from it into your own small business.
