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4. Good to Great: Why Some Companies

Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 5:19 am
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4. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
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Good to Great is one of the best management-related business books I’ve ever read, and it’s a timeless classic. While originally written by world-renowned author, Stanford researcher and consultant, Jim C. Collins back in 2001, his highly actionable advice and fascinating case studies still stand the test of time in this book.

In Good to Great, Collins describes how companies transition from being just good companies into truly great companies that shakeup entire industries for the better—and the reasons behind why most companies fail to ever make buy afghanistan number list transition happen. This business book is a mega best seller, having sold over four million copies (so far) and goes to great length to break down the factors that are common to the world’s few companies that’ve been able to sustain remarkable success for a substantial period of time. If you want to build a business of your own one day, then this is a must-read.

5. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.
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Outliers is credited with popularizing the research that led to formulating the 10,000 Hour Rule for achieving mastery in any subject through deliberate practice—even though practice has since been shown to be merely a component of what it takes to become an expert at your craft. What’s most beautiful about Outliers though, is that the book seeks to answer a simple question, “What makes high-achievers different?” Gladwell believes that we pay too little attention to successful people’s culture, family, generation and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing.

Overall, this has been the most influential business book throughout my life—and I come back to read it every year. I credit it with fueling a lot of my initial inspiration for learning how to start a blog and multi-bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell‘s writing style is still one of my primary influences. His content has actually fueled many blog post ideas for my site. In the book, Gladwell focuses on finding groups of successful people and uncovering exactly how they achieved their level of professional or personal success.

He argues that success is closely connected to opportunity and the amount of time people spend practicing their craft. He presents a compelling case that the reason more people aren’t experts is that since it takes so many hours to master something, most people simply don’t have the patience to devote that kind of time to perfecting a skill. On top of that, Gladwell also talks about the necessary components for finding (or creating) meaningful work, which inspired my first guest blog post ever—on the Buffer blog and led me down the path of learning how to make money blogging & turn this site into a real business.