Good to Great by Jim Collins
Published 2001 · 324 pages · 80,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Business & Self-Help, Nonfiction
How hard is Good to Great to read?
Good to Great scores 16 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 22 out of 100
- Business vocabulary. Very accessible.
- Sentence structure: 22 out of 100
- Abstraction: 30 out of 100
- Conceptual frameworks grounded in case studies.
- Information density: 42 out of 100
- Research-dense but clearly organized.
- Narrative indirection: 80 out of 100
- Systematic, concept-by-concept structure.
- Symbolic density: 12 out of 100
- Flywheel, hedgehog, and bus as organizing metaphors.
- Ironic distance: 80 out of 100
- Earnest and research-driven.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Each chapter delivers clear findings.
- Structural complexity: 20 out of 100
- Nine chapters building a framework.
How Good to Great is regarded
Good to Great holds a literary regard score of 43 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.