ABSTRACT
One of the best-selling leadership books leadership in the twenty first century is Jim Collins's Good to Great. In it, Collins explores what contributes to sustained success over a period of time in companies by comparing the merely "good" with the "great". Collins describes a hierarchy of leaders from highly capable "Level 1" individuals to "Level 5" leaders, who "build enduring greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will". In this chapter the author explores a potentially negative and disempowering side-effect of Collins's work. The concept of "good enough" parenting was developed by the British pediatrician and child psychiatrist Donald Winnicott. Writing from a similar psychoanalytic background, Robert French draws a parallel between a child's development in physical, emotional, mental and spiritual terms and a "good enough" mother and the demands of change, which require "good enough" managerial and leadership capabilities.
