-This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies.- So write Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in this groundbreaking book that shatters myths, provides new insights, and gives practical guidance to those who would like to build landmark companies that stand the test of time.
Drawing upon a six-year research project at the...
-This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insig...
Much of recent theory has characterized life in media-sophisticated societies in terms of a semiotic overload with devastating effects on communication and subjectivity. In Architectures of Excess, Jim Collins argues that, while the rate of technological change has indeed accelerated, so has the rate of absorption. The seemingly endless array of information has generated not chaos but different structures and strategies which harness that excess by turning it into new forms of art and entertainment. Collins concentrates on contemporary phenomena that are also envisioning new cultural...
Much of recent theory has characterized life in media-sophisticated societies in terms of a semiotic overload with devastating effects on communicatio...
Given the changes in consumer and industrial electronics, the critical interest in new technology and its effect on our lives is substantial. This text aims to bring the way the reader thinks about technology up to date. Instead of thinking about technology as only overwhelming, the study aims to show how that very excess is being mastered and is transforming pop culture itself.
Given the changes in consumer and industrial electronics, the critical interest in new technology and its effect on our lives is substantial. This tex...
The first complete look at one of America's legendary business leaders
This groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century's greatest business figures. Over the course of forty-two years, Thomas J. Watson took a failing business called The Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company and transformed it into IBM, the world's first and most famous high-tech company. The Maverick and His Machine is the first modern biography of this business titan. Maney secured exclusive access to...
The first complete look at one of America's legendary business leaders
This groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist...
Building upon the concepts introduced in Good to Great, Jim Collins answers the most commonly asked questions raised by his readers in the social sectors. Using information gathered from interviews with over 100 social sector leaders, Jim Collins shows that his "Level 5 Leader" and other good-to-great principles can help social sector organizations make the leap to greatness.
Building upon the concepts introduced in Good to Great, Jim Collins answers the most commonly asked questions raised by his readers in the...
Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course?
In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their...
Decline can be avoided.
Decline can be detected.
Decline can be reversed.
Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great compan...
