Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't is a management book by Jim C. Collins that describes how companies transition from being good companies to great companies, and how most companies fail to make the transition. The book was a bestseller, selling four million copies and going far beyond the traditional audience of business books. The book was published on October 16, 2001.
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The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015. From 1915 through 1975, A&P was the largest grocery retailer in the United States.
A&P's final headquarters, now demolished and replaced with an upscale townhome development, in Montvale, New Jersey
George Huntington Hartford, mid-1870s
A 1888 advertisement for A&P from a Norfolk, Virginia, guidebook, listing the range of items carried
An A&P supermarket, in Snowdon, Quebec, 1941