Personal relationships of Alexander the Great the shrines of the two heroes Achilles and Patroclus; Alexander honoring Achilles, and Hephaestion honoring Patroclus. Alexander and Hephaestion were possible lovers,and their tutor,Aristotle, described their relationship as "one soul abiding two bodies," After Hephaestion's death, Alexander mourned him greatly and did not eat for days. Alexander held an elaborate funeral for Hephaestion at Babylon, and sent a note to the shrine of Ammon, which had previously acknowledged Alexander as a god, asking them to grant Hephaestion divine honours. The priests declined, but did offer him the status of divine hero. Alexander died soon after receiving this letter; Mary Renault
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"