Comments on: Better Makes Us Best http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2003/05/06/177/ The magazine for the project age Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:34:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Mary Poppendieck http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2003/05/06/177/#comment-356 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2003/05/06/177/#comment-356 'Better Makes Us Best' is similar to 'Best is the Enemy of Better.' In 'Good to Great', Jim Collins calls this the flywheel concept - you keep on pushing bit-by-bit and gradually the flywheel picks up momentum. He notes that every good-to-great company took about a decade to break through into the limelight, and by that time, most of the hard work was long since done. He also notes that companies in search of a silver bullet are almost guaranteed to fail to find it. ‘Better Makes Us Best’ is similar to ‘Best is the Enemy of Better.’

In ‘Good to Great’, Jim Collins calls this the flywheel concept - you keep on pushing bit-by-bit and gradually the flywheel picks up momentum. He notes that every good-to-great company took about a decade to break through into the limelight, and by that time, most of the hard work was long since done.

He also notes that companies in search of a silver bullet are almost guaranteed to fail to find it.

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