Edmund Blampied elected to the Royal Society of British Artists. Later that year he was asked to prepare some new illustrations for a lavish edition of Peter Pan, the rights to which had been bequeathed by J. M. Barrie to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. The "Blampied Edition of Peter and Wendy" was published in 1939 by Hodder & Stoughton in the UK and by Scribners in the US, and is one of the finest illustrated editions of this book. By the time "Peter and Wendy "was published Blampied had moved from London to Jersey with the intention of settling there.
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"