Jim Collins’ book, “Good to Great,” came out in 2001 and defined what it takes for a business to fulfill its potential. If he starts looking for a new case study to support his theories, Collins should come to Arlington where, in the last 15 months, Texas Rangers President Nolan Ryan has left the organization’s historically underachieving mind-set in the dust.

He’s implemented a system with all its ingredients coming together to jell, using his common-sense approach to management that happens to coincide with Good to Great’s key principles.

For a big league ballplayer, no temptation ever presented itself with more irresistibility over the last two decades than whether or not to utilize the potent juice of steroids and human growth hormones.

A batter pumped up by these performance enhancers possessed sufficient additional power to transform an undrugged, warning-track fly out into a “going, going, gone” home run, while a pitcher empowered with some steroidal gas in his tank could add at least five miles an hour to his fastball.

The extra pop in the bat and zip on the ball elevated minor leaguers to the majors, transformed average players into stars, and shifted All-Star regulars into record-shattering legends.