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Good to Great

Co-author of this book also wrote ‘Built to Last’ (If a corporation is doing great, does it have a formula, a set of things which it has done right. ‘Built to Last’ book traces the life cycle of several such corporations)

“Good is the enemy of great”
If everything is going good it doesn’t always mean it can’t be better. And worse still if you do not why you are good, then there is a chance that you will never be great. Why should anyone aspire to be great?¼br /> ¼br /> The criteria for selecting the companies that have made the transition from Good to Great is based on results. Results as the research team headed by the author, Jim Collins, felt should reflect their success. So,here goes the criteria

“Fifteen year Cumulative stock returns at or below the general stock market,punctuated by a transition point, then cumulative returns at least three times more than times the market over the next fifteen years”

So, what does those list of the great companies have in common, is all about ‘Good to Great’

http://www.jimcollins.com/lab/index.html

Transmission

Computer virus…Bollywood…management…and a vague ending:-)

‘Transmission’ is about Gary Swift a trans-world management consultant, Leela Zahir, a demi-god stature bollywood heroine and Arjun Mehta, a young computer geek just arrived in US…and taking the story forward is ‘Leela0x’ a computer virus, unleashed by Arjun.

Hari, a former Wired consultant, weaves the three worlds carefully, without the technical details going overboard.

 

The Aviator

Though quite different at the story level, ‘The Aviator’, does remind you of ‘Citizen Kane’. Even Lenardo’s make up reminds you of me of Orson Welles when he sports a moustache towards the end of the film.

The film is about a maverick entrpreneur who ruled the skies and Hollywood. The result is a heady cocktail of movies, planes, glamor and madness.
 
The movie though a milestone in terms of Scorcesse’s story telling abiltiies set against a huge canvass, it gets a bit tedious at times.
 
But in the end, the movie is worth watching, for the sheer craftsmanship of Scorcesse and his enthusiastic potrayal of the lead character. And Leonardo, does not disappoint as a high voltage aviator who rules the sky but fails to conquer the demons in his mind.