American business researcher and author whose Good to Great and Built to Last are two of the best-selling business books in history — identifying the specific factors (Level 5 Leadership, Hedgehog Concept, the Flywheel) that distinguish truly great companies from merely good ones through systematic research.
Created the most rigorously systematic empirical approach to understanding organizational excellence — comparing great companies matched with good companies over long periods — producing concepts like Level 5 Leadership, First Who Then What, and the Flywheel that have become standard vocabulary in business.
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