Maintain a climate of truth-telling. Who doesn’t want this as part of their safety and health culture? Especially after reading Jim Collins’ “Good to Great,†which upwards of two million people have done. Head-on confrontation with harsh realities (and safety can definitely qualify as a harsh reality) is one of five traits separating good companies from the great ones, according to Collins and his research team of 20 business school students.
After analyzing 1,435 public companies, Collins and his team unearthed essentials for greatness that include: