One of the great business books is From Good to Great by Jim Collins.

It speaks about many still useful practices for business and life but one

of its core values is how quickly you can become great if you do all of the

right things and people will forget that you were ever just “good.”

On the flip side if you don’t continue to do the “great” things you will be

back down to earth in the blink of an eye.

Real life example needed to show how quickly it can happen???

Look at that photo above…

That is a picture of the Green Bay Packers QB Matt Flynn this Sunday just

ONE year ago this coming weekend fumbling against the New England

Patriots and losing that game to fall to 8-6 and out of the NFL playoffs for

the time being.

WAIT….

What?  The Green Bay Packers almost didn’t make the playoffs last year.

Matt Flynn was their starting QB in week 15? (Aaron Rodgers sat out week 15

from a concussion suffered in week 14.)

These are the same Green Bay Packers who in the last 363 days have:

1) Snuck into the playoffs at 10-6

2) Won 3 road games and then the Super Bowl

3) Are currently sitting at 13-0

4) The odds on favorite to win 2 Super Bowls in a row in a league that is

more full of parody than ever before

5) Have the chance to win 25 straight games and will potentially be annointed

THE BEST TEAM EVER to play in the NFL!

Not bad for a team that 363 days ago had Matt Flynn getting worked over

by an average New England Defense (New England lost in the first round at

home last year fyi.)

That’s how quickly it can happen if you keep doing all the right things, for the

Packers it was having an Elite QB, top to bottom deep roster, playmakers on

both sides of the ball, great coordinators, smart draft picks, and an attitude

that they were doing all the right things and it would pay off.

They continued to do that during last year’s ups and downs of injuries,

tough scheduling, etc.

Because of that….

They went FROM GOOD TO GREAT.

If they go undefeated and win another Super Bowl I can make the argument

that Jim Collins should let me add a foreword to his award winning book about

a current example of a company (they are one) going from good to great!

How long will they stay there?

Running a company in the NFL is just as cutthroat as Wall Street, so it will be

hard to maintain but they have continued to have the right attitude, mindset,

team work, players, talent, and coaching.

So it could be up on that GREAT pedestal for a while.

Stay Tuned…

Thanks for reading all and as always CARPE DIEM!

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