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Good Enough Isn't Enough
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Good Enough Isn't Enough

Nine Challenges for Companies That Choose to Be Great

Alan Weiss
AMACOM, 2000

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Editorial Rating

8

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Recommendation

Alan Weiss’s clarion call for corporate excellence may remind you of your parents’ stern guidance in your youth. You weren’t sure you wanted to listen to their traditional viewpoints, but you knew they were right. Weiss cites today’s watered-down sense of social accountability as the bad seed that has spoiled corporate standards. He insists that constantly lowering standards is not the way to achieve lasting excellence. He warns that executives need to exercise common sense rather than chase every management fad they encounter or succumb to high-priced consultants. Similarly, he warns that executives who surround themselves with sycophants will get carried away with their own egos. At times, Weiss seems to get a bit carried away himself, regaling how he browbeat the service rep when his bottled water delivery went to the wrong address. But getAbstract recommends this book as beneficial to executives - and even to consultants - as a refreshing throwback to days before the advent of kinder, gentler management.

Take-Aways

  • Lasting excellence is rare because organizations fail to make the difficult choices it requires.
  • Sustained excellence requires vision, new talent and balanced customer and stakeholder interests.
  • Most companies won’t upset the status quo. Great organizations constantly strive to improve and never are satisfied with success.

About the Author

Alan Weiss,  Ph.D. is president of Summit Consulting Group. A regular on the consulting speakers’ circuit, Weiss has written more than 400 articles and 10 books, including Money Talks and Our Emperors Have No Clothes.

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