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Achieving greatness: board of trustees and staff draw lessons from good to great.

Publication: Industrial Engineer
Publication Date: 01-NOV-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Achieving greatness: board of trustees and staff draw lessons from good to great.(KEEPING PACE WITH IIE)(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
You don't often hear someone wax rhapsodic about a hedgehog. But that's just what members of the IIE Board of Trustees and staff were doing after devoting a morning of their August planning meeting to discussion of Jim Collins' book Good to Great.

Al Soyster, president-elect of IIE and the individual charged with ensuring that the August meeting maintained a strategic focus, says he stumbled across Good to Great in an airport....

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