Geraldine McCaughrean that what makes her love writing is the desire to escape from an unsatisfactory world. Her motto is: do not write about what you know, write about what you want to know. Her work includes many retellings of classic stories for children: "The Odyssey", "El Cid", "The Canterbury Tales", "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Moby Dick", "One Thousand and One Arabian Nights" and "Gilgamesh". J. M. Barrie gave all rights to "Peter Pan" to Great Ormond Street Hospital in 1929, and in 2004, to coincide with "Peter Pan"'s centenary, the hospital launched a competition to find the author of a sequel. McCaughrean
Good to Great generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transcripts and created 384 megabytes of computer data in a five-year project". Top members of this research team were: Collins finds eleven examples of "great companies" and comparators, similar in industry-type and opportunity, but which failed to achieve the good-to-great growth shown in the great companies: Collins includes 6 examples of companies that did not sustain their change to greatness. These companies, "... are looked at separately as a clump": The book was "cited by several members of The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council as the best management book they've read." "Publishers Weekly"