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Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap...and Others Don't

James C. Collins

BUILT TO LAST, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how longterm sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.
But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? Are there those that convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? If so, what are the distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?
Over five years, Jim Collins and his research team have analyzed the histories of 28 companies, discovering why some companies make the leap and others don't. The findings include:
Level 5 Leadership: A surprising style, required for greatness.
The Hedgehog Concept: Finding your three circles, to transcend the curse of competence.
A Culture of Discipline: The alchemy of great results.
Technology Accelerators: How good-to-great companies think differently about technology.
The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Why those who do radical restructuring fail to make the leap.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2005, 2005, 2001, 2001

Good to Great and the Social Sectors

James C. Collins

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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

James C. Collins

Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day -- as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: "What makes the truly exceptional companies different from the comparison companies and what were the common practices these enduringly great companies followed throughout their history?"

Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the 21st century and beyond.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2002, 1994, Hardcover - 1994

Built to Last Intl: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

James C. Collins

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Managing the Small to Mid-Sized Company: Concepts and Cases

James C. Collins; William C. Lazier

A combination of 29 cases from Stanford and Harvard, and 11 chapters covering managing a small to mid-sized business

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Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company

James C. Collins; William C. Lazier

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Accident Reconstruction

James C. Collins

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Highway Collision Analysis,

James C. Collins

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