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While working on his first two books about businesses that scaled to great heights, Jim Collins found that the executives responsible for leading America s most successful ventures possessed a wide range of characteristics everything from brashness to introversion; some were wildly creative while others were disciplined. That s why by the time he was working on his third book, which would become the bestselling business bible, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap.and Others Don t,
he d become convinced that leadership wasn t a determining factor in a company s long-term success. Fortunately for him, he had by that time