Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't (Good to Great, 1)

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't (Good to Great, 1)The Challenge: Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study: For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim

This “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice belongs “alongside the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe

white people are in for a surprise: You're about to be a minority yourself

and what it means to be American

it seems the universe has other plans for him

Besides important male historical figures

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he demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are part and parcel of the same history that produced modernity and that both represent complexly interrelated hybrid formations

clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system

While on a research expedition in West Africa as a young man

The Year We Learned to Fly

every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy

Young readers will enjoy learning about how Anna