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great pattern independent of its industry.
● Each company had to demonstrate a pattern of results.
● Each company was compared to other similar com- panies that either never made the good-to-great leap (or made it but did not sustain it), in order to determine what distinguished the good-to-great company from all others.
When the dust cleared and the good-to-great compa- nies were identified, the author and his researchers found distinct patterns of behavior in those who led each company and the people who followed them — patterns that concerned disciplined people, thought and action. ■