Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
A five-year study of 11 companies that leapt ahead shows Level 5 leaders, right people, hedgehog focus and flywheel momentum explain lasting gains.
2,374-word summary · 11 min read
Books: G
66 books starting with G.
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Goodnight Moon
A small bunny says goodnight to each object in the green room in this 1947 bedtime classic.
2,600-word summary · 12 min read
Graceling
Katsa, Graced with killing, breaks from her uncle's use of her and follows a kidnapped prince toward a hidden king.
2,517-word summary · 11 min read
Grave Mercy
Convent assassin Ismae spares Gavriel and hunts traitors in Brittany.
2,357-word summary · 10 min read
Grave Peril
Chicago ghosts turn murderous as Harry Dresden faces a vengeful sorcerer and Bianca's vampire trap.
3,484-word summary · 15 min read
Gray Mountain
A Manhattan associate furloughed after the financial crash takes a year of unpaid legal aid work in Appalachian coal country, and finds the case of her life…
2,026-word summary · 9 min read
Great Expectations
Orphan Pip chases wealth and Estella through London fog and prison ships.
2,117-word summary · 9 min read
Green Eggs and Ham
Sam-I-Am will not stop asking until his friend tries green eggs and ham.
1,977-word summary · 9 min read
Greenlights
McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood.
2,577-word summary · 11 min read
Gregor the Overlander
Gregor follows Boots down a grate into the Underland and a war prophecy.
2,516-word summary · 11 min read
Grey
Fifty Shades retold by Christian Grey: his nightmares, his need for control, the contract, and the breakup that breaks him.
2,980-word summary · 13 min read
Grip of the Shadow Plague
A plague turns Fablehaven's creatures of light into shadows while Kendra hunts an artifact in Arizona and Seth races to find the cause.
2,131-word summary · 9 min read
Grit
A psychologist argues sustained passion plus perseverance beats raw talent, and shows how grit can be grown.
2,432-word summary · 11 min read
Guards! Guards!
A drunk captain, his last two guards, and an earnest recruit face a summoned dragon in Ankh-Morpork in Pratchett's funny eighth Discworld book.
2,307-word summary · 10 min read
Guess How Much I Love You
Two nutbrown hares try to outshow their love at bedtime in this gentle picture book classic.
2,282-word summary · 10 min read
Guilty Pleasures
Animator Anita hunts a vampire killer while Jean-Claude pulls her close.
2,136-word summary · 9 min read
Gulliver's Travels
A ship's surgeon meets tiny Lilliputians, giant Brobdingnagians, Laputa's projectors, and rational horses in Swift's 1726 satire.
2,600-word summary · 12 min read
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Diamond argues geography and crops explain why some societies expanded faster than others.
3,432-word summary · 15 min read