The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.
But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity...
The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph ove...
This text attempts to show how a good company can become a great company. It looks at the type of leadership required, the correct uses of technology, and how to make the changes last. Jim Collins is also the author of Built to Last.
This text attempts to show how a good company can become a great company. It looks at the type of leadership required, the correct uses of technology,...
Provides details about building organizations that prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond, and also about visionary companies. This book contains specific examples and is organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at various levels.
Provides details about building organizations that prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond, and also about visionary companies. This boo...
How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early & avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable & unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In this book, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline.
How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early & avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable & unshakabl...
Rejecting the belief, common among politicians, that all would be well in society if only the public sector operated more like the private sector, this book sets out a fresh approach to creating successful hospitals, police forces, universities, charities, and other non-profit-making organisations.
Rejecting the belief, common among politicians, that all would be well in society if only the public sector operated more like the private sector, thi...
Most executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. But they install layers of stultifying bureaucracy that prevent them from realizing it. In this article, Jim Collins introduces the catalytic mechanism, a simple yet powerful managerial tool that helps turn lofty aspirations into reality. The crucial link between objectives and results, this tool is a galvanizing, nonbureaucratic way to turn one into the other. But the same catalytic mechanism that works in one organization won't necessarily work in another. So, to help readers get started, Collins offers some general principles...
Most executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. But they install layers of stultifying bureaucracy that prevent them from realizing it. In this ...
