From Jim Collins' Website: Based on a five-year research project, Good to Great answers the question: “Can a good company become a great company, and, if so, how?” True to the rigorous research methodology and invigorating teaching style of Jim Collins, Good to Great teaches how even the dowdiest of companies can make the leap to outperform market leaders the likes of Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.

To succeed in the years ahead, today's highly competitive, fast-paced organizations must initiate a revolution. This is an unusual revolution. Not one side against the other, but both sides against a common problem: outmoded approaches, longer working hours and constant stress. Against endless crisis-focused meetings and short-sighted solutions that result in long-term problems and disasters instead. This book will show individuals at all levels of organizations how to initiate a top-down, bottom-up Grass Roots Revolution and present the skills that will be needed to get there.

This book is filled with all that is right with the business of design. Everyone can read this book and find inspiration to achieve something better.

“In these highly competitive times achieving success is just as much about running a quality business as it is about producing great design. This book provides deceptively simple, yet ultimately crucial guidelines that apply to anyone seeking inspiration and insight – from young entrepreneurs just setting up a practice to senior management of well established firms needing that spark to rekindle new directions”

- Roger Godwin, AIA, ASID, Gensler

Did you know that your employees have rights to work? And you may be surprised at what they are - as will your employees!

This book details, in deceptively simple but imaginative language, a humanitarian approach to leadership. The artful leader recognizes human diversity and makes full use of his or her employees' gifts. Further, Depree believes, a leader is responsible not just for the health of a company's financial assets, but for its ethics. Advocating management through persuasion, and the exercise of democratic participation rather than concentrated power, he favors covenantal relationships with employees that rest on shared purpose, dignity and choice.

Whether an Architect, Engineer or an Manager/Administrator in one of those two disciplines, the future of our industry and how we will grow into it is transforming before our very eyes. Faster, more accurate, and full of innovation, our delivery system is changing and successful firms are already jumping on board. What is technology allowing us to do? What expectations must we meet? How easy is it to change?

This book WILL change the way you think about the future of your firm. Just think..."if your firm were just 10% more efficient, that would translate directly into 10% more profitability." It can happen.

This book has something for everyone in your firm. Be the leader who brings this information to the table. Open up a dialogue and help your firm grow into the future.

If you have read the Radical Leap you will understand the draw to the Radical Edge! Find out about a "WUP Upside the Head" and why this can change your life! This journey of discovery will take you on a ride of observation, attitude, and life choices. Discover living in the moment and the art of fully and passionately engaging in the world, making decisions based on more than just research, and understanding that there is more to business than just "business"!

Get ready for a radical new approach to leadership. Steve Farber introduces you to an entertaining, engaging, and inspirational tale of how today’s leaders can renew their excitement for what they do and encourage others to lead with passion. Geared to business leaders at any organizational level who aspire to change things for the better, this book will be one that you will want to share with others.