New Releases by JIM COLLINS

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jim Collins, international bestselling author of Good to Great, offers transformative lessons on constructing—and reconstructing—a life through the cliff moments and transitions we all will face repeatedly in our lives. What to make of a life? It is a question we all wrestle with more than once: How do we find our way in the world? How do we make it past the cliffs, significant events that can radically change a life? How do we keep the inner fire burning bright, long and late? Inspired by relentless curiosity, Jim Collins devoted a decade to studying these questions and to minutely analyzing those moments when life flips from clarity to confusion and casts us into a befuddling fog. His exploration follows various lives side-by-side, paired together at cliffs, and analyzes the different choices made and divergent paths taken. Two rock musicians confronting a future without the group that had brought them success. Two public figures tainted by scandal having to make decisions about how to rebuild their lives. Two suffragists achieving their epic goal and so left with the puzzle of what to do next. Two figure skaters seeking new purpose when their Olympic careers come to an end. What emerges from Collins’s extensive studies—of writers, actors, scientists, leaders and many others—is a framework for understanding how individual lives can be built, sustained and constantly renewed. By examining the long arc of these remarkable lives, Collins tackles life’s questions. What does it take to: Discover a deeply fulfilling role in life—one that you are naturally ‘encoded’ for—and then to find a second one, if the first one ends? Overcome a major cliff—a fracture point that forces choices about what’s next and calls for you to re-envision the years to come? Make your personal economics work so that you can focus on one big thing that feeds your inner fire? Navigate the fog, when you feel uncertain or even outright lost, and build confidence step by step? Build personal momentum decade upon decade, so that your most creative and energetic years are spread across an entire lifetime? Achieve the imperative to “Know Thyself” and apply self-knowledge to each phase of life? And for the first time, Collins movingly chronicles his own story to reveal how undertaking this project transformed him, changing his thinking and reshaping his emotions in fundamental ways. Surprising, story-driven, deeply researched, and uplifting, What to Make of a Life is a book like no other, convincingly showing how a richly fulfilled life is within reach of us all.

Beyond Entrepreneurship (BE) 2.0 es la ambiciosa actualización de un clásico atemporal escrito por Jim Collins y Bill Lazier sobre lo que motiva a las empresas a ser un negocio exitoso y sostenible. BE 2.0, es un libro que resume los principios que ha desarrollado Jim Collins en todos sus otros libros. Cuando Bill Lazier y Jim Collins escribieron la edición original de Beyond Entrepreneurship, basada en el contenido del curso que impartían en la escuela de negocios de la universidad de Stanford, decidieron crear una hoja de ruta para los líderes de las pequeñas y medianas empresas que quisieran construir una empresa grande y duradera. Beyond Entrepreneurship fue el libro más vendido en Silicon Valley e influyó en toda una generación de emprendedores como Reed Hastings de Netflix. Cuando Bill Lazier falleció, Jim Collins pensó en escribir algo para honrar al que fuera el mejor mentor de su vida. ¿Qué mejor tributo que una edición conmemorativa y actualizada del libro que crearon juntos? Pero BE 2.0 es mucho más que una reedición tradicional. Casi la mitad del contenido de BE 2.0 es totalmente nuevo con respecto a la primera edición. La visión actualizada de Collins aparece junto con el texto original, complementando las lecciones fundamentales de Beyond Entrepreneurship con cuatro capítulos y quince ensayos nuevos. A lo largo de todo el libro, BE 2.0 se mantiene fiel a la visión original que ambos autores persiguieron en la primera edición: que fuera una guía práctica y un mapa conceptual. En esta nueva edición, se incluye un capítulo final que integra los conceptos clave de las décadas de investigación de Jim Collins sobre lo que hace que las grandes empresas funcionen en un marco integral y práctico que denomina «El Mapa".

Incertitude économique, crise du leadership... revenez aux valeurs sûres qui font la force et la pérennité des entreprises depuis plusieurs décennies. Dans ce grand classique du management, Jim Collins vous propose de vous inspirer des entreprises qui ont su capter les marchés et les ressources pour décoller dans un paysage concurrentiel féroce. Walgreens, Abott, Wells Fargo, Gilette, Kimberly-Clark, ou la preuve par l''exemple. N’est pas excellent qui veut: il vous faut un plan stratégique et une méthode éprouvée, dite du "volant", théorisée par Jim Collins. Vous démarrez quand?

Good to great: Referenciado como uno de los diez mejores libros sobre gestión empresarial, "Good to Great" nos ofrece todo un conjunto de directrices y paradigmas que debe adoptar cualquier empresa que pretenda diferenciarse de las demás. Después de revisar montañas de datos, de hacer miles de entrevistas y de utilizar rigurosas herramientas de comparación, Jim Collins y su equipo de investigación identificaron los determinantes clave de la excelencia en un conjunto de empresas de élite que dieron el salto hasta conseguir unos resultados extraordinarios y sostenibles. Girando la rueda: Una guía indispensable que acompaña al libro Good to Great, el número uno de los best-sellers de empresa. La obra se centra en la aplicación del concepto de "rueda o volante de inercia", una de las ideas más reconocidas de Jim Collins y que está siendo empleada en todas las industrias y sectores sociales, así como por las startups. La clave del éxito empresarial no responde a una sola innovación o a un solo plan. Consiste en el efecto de saber hacer girar la rueda, generando impulso de manera gradual para acabar consiguiendo un gran avance.

El declive se puede detectar. El declive se puede evitar. El declive se puede revertir. Jim Collins es probablemente el académico más reconocido del mundo de la empresa y del management. Trabajó durante cinco años en Empresas que sobresalen que, publicado en 2001, se convirtió rápidamente en un éxito internacional. Los críticos siguen considerándolo el mejor libro de management de la pasada década. Tras el impacto generado por la caída de gigantes como Lehman Brothers o Enron, Collins ha dedicado otro lustro a estudiar qué factores arrastran a las grandes empresas a la ruina. ¿El declive puede ser detectado con la suficiente antelación para corregirlo?, ¿cuán hondo puede caer una compañía para que su recuperación sea inevitable?, ¿cómo se puede corregir una mala situación? En consecuencia, se trata de saber cuáles son los síntomas y las fases de la caída. Sólo siendo capaces de predecirla y detectarla se puede revertir a tiempo. ¿Y cuáles son para Collins esas fases? Fase 1: arrogancia nacida del éxito Fase 2: persecución indisciplinada del crecimiento Fase 3: negación del riesgo y el peligro Fase 4: búsqueda dramática de la salvación Fase 5: capitulación. Ser insignificante o morir Toda organización, no importa lo grande que sea, es vulnerable. No existe ninguna ley que garantice la supervivencia, pero como concluye este trabajo de investigación, algunas empresas logran sobrevivir a las crisis siendo aún más fuertes que antes.

Bestseller #1. Siete millones de copias vendidas. Referenciado como uno de los diez mejores libros sobre gestión empresarial, "Good to Great" nos ofrece todo un conjunto de directrices y paradigmas que debe adoptar cualquier empresa que pretenda diferenciarse de las demás. Después de revisar montañas de datos, de hacer miles de entrevistas y de utilizar rigurosas herramientas de comparación, Jim Collins y su equipo de investigación identificaron los determinantes clave de la excelencia en un conjunto de empresas de élite que dieron el salto hasta conseguir unos resultados extraordinarios y sostenibles. Elogios a GOOD TO GREAT: "Este libro escrito a partir de una investigación profunda refuta muchas de las exageraciones actuales de la gestión empresarial —desde el culto al CEO superhombre al culto a la tecnología de la información o la afición a las fusiones y adquisiciones. Estas prácticas no permiten que la mediocridad se convierta en una competencia, sino que deberían permitir que la competencia se convirtiera en excelencia". Peter F. Drucker "Un libro que ningún CEO debería dejar de comprar". USA Today "Collins y su equipo de investigación abordan unas de las cuestiones más importantes que las empresas deberían tratar". Fortune "Con ambos libros, Good to Great y Built to Last, el señor Collins ofrece dos mensajes seductores: que la gestión extraordinaria la pueden conse-guir los simples mortales y que sus practicantes pueden desarrollar instituciones excelentes. Es justo lo que los mortales queríamos oír". Wall Street Journal "La diferencia es lo duro que trabaja el señor Collins para llegar a sus conclusiones más elementales. Se basan en años de minuciosa investi-gación empírica y todas ellas son las más poderosas para producir los resultados más sorprendentes". Financial Times "La idea empresarial del año" Fast Company "Collins ha vuelto a escribir un libro que parece haber sido concebido para perdurar". Business Wee

¿Por qué algunas empresas generan impulso y otras no? Una guía indispensable que acompaña al libro Good to Great, el número uno de los best-sellers de empresa. La obra se centra en la aplicación del concepto de "rueda o volante de inercia", una de las ideas más reconocidas de Jim Collins y que está siendo empleada en todas las industrias y sectores sociales, así como por las startups. La clave del éxito empresarial no responde a una sola innovación o a un solo plan. Consiste en el efecto de saber hacer girar la rueda, generando impulso de manera gradual para acabar consiguiendo un gran avance.

From Jim Collins, the most influential business thinker of our era, comes an ambitious upgrade of his classic, Beyond Entrepreneurship, that includes all-new findings and world-changing insights. What''s the roadmap to create a company that not only survives its infancy but thrives, changing the world for decades to come? Nine years before the publication of his epochal bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins and his mentor, Bill Lazier, answered this question in their bestselling book, Beyond Entrepreneurship. Beyond Entrepreneurship left a definitive mark on the business community, influencing the young pioneers who were, at that time, creating the technology revolution that was birthing in Silicon Valley. Decades later, successive generations of entrepreneurs still turn to the strategies outlined in Beyond Entrepreneurship to answer the most pressing business questions. BE 2.0 is a new and improved version of the book that Jim Collins and Bill Lazier wrote years ago. In BE 2.0, Jim Collins honors his mentor, Bill Lazier, who passed away in 2005, and reexamines the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship with his 2020 perspective. The book includes the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship, as well as four new chapters and fifteen new essays. BE 2.0 pulls together the key concepts across Collins'' thirty years of research into one integrated framework called The Map. The result is a singular reading experience, which presents a unified vision of company creation that will fascinate not only Jim''s millions of dedicated readers worldwide, but also introduce a new generation to his remarkable work.

First Published in 1995. Much of recent theory has characterized life in media-sophisticated societies in terms of a semiotic overload which, allegedly, has had only 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 forms of art and entertainment. Digital sampling in rap music and cyber-punk science fiction are well-known examples of techno-pop textuality, but Collins concentrates on other contemporaneous phenomena that are also envisioning new cultural landscapes by accessing that array--hyper-self-reflexivity in mall movies, best sellers, and prime-time television; the deconstructive vs. new-classical debate in architecture; the emergence of the "New Black Aesthetic;" the development of retro-modernism in interior design and the fashion industries. The analyses of these disparate, discontinous attempts to develop a meaningful sense of location, in an historical as well as a spatial sense, address a cluster of interconnected questions: How is the array of information being "domesticated?" How has appropriationism evolved from the Pop-Art of the sixties to the sampling of the nineties? How has the relationship between tradition, innovation, and evaluation been altered? Architectures of Excess investigates how these phenomena reflect change in taste and subjectivity, considering how we must account for both, pedagogically.

Der Weg an die Spitze ist steinig und schwer? Nicht mit Jim Collins! Der Management-Vordenker macht sieben Schlüsselfaktoren aus, durch die gute Unternehmen zu Spitzenunternehmen wurden. Sie fragen sich, welche Faktoren das sind? Sie wollen wissen, wie Sie Ihr eigenes Unternehmen dauerhaft nach ganz vorne bringen können? Dann lesen Sie diesen Weltbestseller! "Pflichtlektüre für jeden, der sich ernsthaft mit Management befasst." fredmund malik "Eine faszinierende Studie über die Faktoren, die Spitzenunternehmen zu dem gemacht haben, was sie heute sind." fortune "Ein außergewöhnliches Management-Buch: solide recherchiert, ungewöhnlich in seinen Schlussfolgerungen." wall street journal

History of Camp Kehonka on New Hampshire''s Lake Winnipesaukee, one of the first summer camps for girls in the United States. Book is a visually rich chronicle of the camp''s founders and programs, drawing extensively from archival photographs and materials, including memoirs from long-time camp director A. Cooper "Bally" Ballentine and oral-history interviews from more than 50 former campers and counselors.

面對動盪、混亂且難以預測的經營環境， 為什麼有些企業可以挺過風暴、維持高績效，有些卻每況愈下？ A+企管大師柯林斯實證研究，破解十倍勝企業成功密碼： 卓越是出於刻意的選擇、堅持紀律的結果。 于為暢（資深網路人、個人品牌教練） 李吉仁（予新創業管理顧問公司創辦人、臺大EMBA兼任教授） 邱求慧（科技部產學與園區業務司司長） 林之晨（台灣大哥大總經理、AppWorks 董事長暨合夥人） 游舒帆（商業思維學院院長） 雷浩斯（價值投資者、財經作家） 盧世安（「人資小週末」專業社群創辦人） 巔峰推薦 此書提出爆量的正確觀念，搭配動人的故事，讓閱讀充滿樂趣，啟發性十足。 ──于為暢（資深網路人、個人品牌教練） 選擇變與不變，確實是企業能否邁向永續經營的關鍵。 ──李吉仁（予新創業管理顧問公司創辦人、臺大EMBA兼任教授） 有了這本書的啟發……一定能掌握十倍勝成功的關鍵。 ──邱求慧（科技部產學與園區業務司司長） 孟子說：「生於憂患，死於安樂。」柯林斯用他的西方科學方法幫我們印證了這個兩千年的道理。 ──林之晨（台灣大哥大總經理、AppWorks 董事長暨合夥人） 本書談到許多企業經營的真理……精彩且充滿洞見。 ──游舒帆（商業思維學院院長） 柯林斯和巴菲特其實是同類人……只要直接運用他們的智慧，絕對可以省下不少時間和精力。 ──雷浩斯（價值投資者、財經作家） 柯大師這種具有歷史縱深以及研究範疇廣度的研究模式，可謂獨樹一格。 ──盧世安（「人資小週末」專業社群創辦人） 【本書簡介】 彼得．杜拉克：預測未來最好的方法，就是創造未來！ 一樁震驚全球的恐怖攻擊事件，讓美國從穩定、富裕的假象中驚醒，加上興旺多年的牛市崩盤，政府與企業面臨了難以預測的嚴峻考驗。 這讓柯林斯和韓森的研究團隊想到：為什麼有些公司在不確定中仍能蓬勃發展、有些卻辦不到？哪些關鍵因素導致企業走向截然不同的命運？於是他們展開九年研究，過濾了兩萬多家企業，找出七家績效非凡的「十倍勝」企業，並與同樣面臨極端動盪局面、卻節節敗退的對照公司比較。進而發現，十倍勝企業的成功並非做了劇烈改革或有較快的決策速度，而是他們知道什麼時候該快、什麼時候該慢。 本書不但探討企業本身的經營績效，更加上「環境」的變數，將焦點放在企業身處的混亂環境，深入了解領導人面對逆境時的應變做法，同時解析了「運氣」扮演的角色，歸納出十倍勝企業的成功要訣，而這些要訣也成為投資人觀察企業良莠的判斷指標。 │本書重要觀念│ ● 二十哩行軍：十倍勝企業領導人具有強烈的目標導向，無論面對順境或逆境，都能以堅強的意志力確保策略與組織做法形成高度的一致性，帶領組織成員達成目標。柯林斯將領導人這種狂熱的紀律形容為「二十哩行軍」。 ● 先設子彈，再設砲彈：十倍勝公司在發展過程中，在意的不是跑得比別人快或擁有最厲害的創意，而是弄清楚在實務上怎麼做才行得通，而且要做得比別人都出色。柯林斯將這種步步為營、以實證為創造力的創新方法比喻為「先設子彈，再設砲彈」，即一開始先發射子彈，弄清楚怎麼做才能奏效，有了實證依據而信心大增，就可以集中資源，發射砲彈。 ● 超越死亡線：十倍勝領導人知道自己無法預測未來，所以必須及早為無法預測地意外狀況做好充分準備，這種建設性的偏執讓他們冒更低的風險，卻產生更卓越的成果。 ● SMaC致勝配方：SMaC代表「具體明確，有條理、有方法，同時始終如一」。十倍勝公司在瞬息萬變、高度不確定的世界裡，會以堅忍自持的態度，泰然接受無法控制的情況，盡最大努力掌握自己可以掌控的情況，而SMaC就是他們在失控世界裡努力掌控一切的方法。 ● 重要的不是運氣，而是運氣報酬率：好運和壞運之間有一種不對稱關係。十倍勝領導人總是假定自己運氣很差，因此未雨綢繆、預做準備。因此他們會透過「二十哩行軍」、「先設子彈，再設砲彈」、「超越死亡線」和「SMaC致勝配方」來獲得高運氣報酬率。 │打破迷思，理出企業成功關鍵│ ● 十倍勝公司不一定靠創新脫穎而出。 ● 十倍勝公司不一定決策速度比較快，而是知道什麼時候該快，什麼時候該慢。 ● 十倍勝公司不一定要做劇烈的改革。 ● 十倍勝公司不一定是因為運氣比較好，而是碰到不同機運時，怎麼做。 【推薦紀錄】 國家文官學院公務人員「每月一書」暨專書閱讀心得寫作競賽活動指定書目。

From Jim Collins, the most influential business thinker of our era, comes an upgrade of his classic, Beyond Entrepreneurship, that includes all-new findings and world-changing insights. What''s the roadmap to create a company that not only survives its infancy but thrives, changing the world for decades to come? Jim Collins and his mentor, Bill Lazier, answered this question in their book, Beyond Entrepreneurship. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0 is a new and improved version of that book. In this upgraded edition, Jim Collins reexamines the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship with his 2020 perspective. The book includes the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship, as well as four new chapters and fifteen new essays. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0 pulls together the key concepts across Collins'' thirty years of research into one integrated framework called The Map. The result is a singular reading experience, which presents a unified vision of company creation that will fascinate not only Jim''s millions of dedicated readers worldwide, but also introduce a new generation to his remarkable work.

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A companion guidebook to the number-one bestselling Good to Great, focused on implementation of the flywheel concept, one of Jim Collins’ most memorable ideas that has been used across industries and the social sectors, and with startups. The key to business success is not a single innovation or one plan. It is the act of turning the flywheel, slowly gaining momentum and eventually reaching a breakthrough. Building upon the flywheel concept introduced in his groundbreaking classic Good to Great, Jim Collins teaches readers how to create their own flywheel, how to accelerate the flywheel’s momentum, and how to stay on the flywheel in shifting markets and during times of turbulence. Combining research from his Good to Great labs and case studies from organizations like Amazon, Vanguard, and the Cleveland Clinic which have turned their flywheels with outstanding results, Collins demonstrates that successful organizations can disrupt the world around them—and reach unprecedented success—by employing the flywheel concept.

This book is full of anecdotes of people and events encountered over a lifetime of sailing in South East Asia, Australia, and the Middle East—treasure hunters, magicians, the American Mayor of Osaka, smugglers, a brave flier, and lone sailors.

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 that support the process of building one effectively. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

لماذا لا يوجد لدينا أفضل الشركات؟ لأن شركاتنا جيدة وحسب. الكاتب جيم كولينز في هذا الكتاب يعتبر أن عكس الأفضل هو الجيد, يعتبر الكتاب حصيلة خمس سنوات من البحث من قبل الكاتب وفريق عمله لمقارنة سبب نجاح الشركات في المجالات المختلفة وسبب محافظتها على هذا النجاح. على سبيل المثال أحد الحالات المدروسة في الكتاب شركة والغرين التي كانت معروفة لفترة طويلة من الزمن بأنها شركة جيدة, ولكن في عام 1975 حدثت قفزة في هذه الشركة وبدأت أسهمها ترتفع وترتفع, ومن عام 1975 وحتى عام 2000 فإنك كل دولار واحد استثمر في شركة والغرين تفوق على الـ 1 دولار الذي استثمر في شركات إنتل بمرتين تقريباً, وعلى شركة جنرال إلكتريك بخمسة مرات, وعلى شركة كوكاكولا بثمانية مرات, وعلى متوسط نمو السوق بخمس عشرة مرة. كيف حققت شركة والغرين القفزة؟ ولماذا لم تحقق شركات أخرى تعمل في نفس المجال وبنفس الموارد والفرص هذه القفزة؟ هذا ما يدور حوله الكتاب. يعتبر الكتاب من أفضل الكتب مبيعاً حسب تصنيف نيويورك تايمز ومع أنه صدر من عام 2001 إلا أنه ما زال مرجعاً في مجال الإدارة وتطوير الشركات. تصنيف الكتاب في موقع أمازون: #1 in Company Profiles #1 in Strategic Planning#2 in Systems & Planning رابط الكتاب في موقع أمازون: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0066620996

Leadership Qualities: Qualities of a Good Leader What is leadership? Many confuse leadership with management. There is a clear distinction between leadership and management. Leaders lead and managers manage. Leaders are innovative and always seek for fresh and efficient strategies for maximizing productivity. Whatever capacity of leadership you may be in, the author shares powerful insights and leadership principles that will maximize your potential and develop the leader within you. Leadership Qualities: Qualities of a Good Leader Tags: leadership qualities, qualities of a good leader, leadership, leaders, what is leadership, leadership skills, leadership qualities, effective leadership, qualities of a leader, leadership characteristics, leadership and management, leader, inspiration, situational leadership, leadership models, define leadership, women in leadership, leadership books, leadership attributes, charismatic leadership, authentic leadership, management, teamwork, leadership skills list, effective leadership skills, great leaders, what makes a great leader, thought leader, inspirational words, words of inspiration, inspiring words, inspirational messages, inspirational sayings, motivational words, business leadership, leadership development, effective leadership skills, change management, strategic leadership, inspire action, trust, communicate, motivation, inspiring people, innovation, creativity, decision making, entrepreneurship, mentoring, making ideas happen, inspiring organizations, inspiring leaders, inspiring action, women in leadership, women''s leadership, leadership styles, leadership advice, on leadership, leadership development, leadership training, leadership skills, good leadership skills, leadership definition, leadership quotes, effective leadership skills, good leadership qualities, situational leadership, leadership books, best leadership books, books on leadership, qualities of a good leader, leader, team leader skills, managerial skills, communication skills, team leadership, leadership traits, visionary leadership, leadership academy, transactional leadership, authentic leadership, educational leadership, adaptive leadership, leadership vs management, time management

Meet the boys of St Johns, an exclusive private boys boarding school headed by the eccentric Mr Billings. There is surprise sex, welcoming sex, birthday sex, surfer sex, revenge sex, punishment sex, sex for pay, cinema sex, teacher sex, coach sex, prison sex. All the things that should happen at the very best schools. Unsolicited, not offered, testimonials Jim Collins, the king of the world Jon Sawack You''re going to need bigger tissues Rod Martin Frankly mother, I don''t give a damn Bert Tutler I''m going to make Jim an offer he can''t refuse Trev Cline Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make. Doc Clarant I''ll have what he''s having Tom Cruse

Traditional Chinese edition of GREAT BY CHOICE: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to envision that culture in conflicting ways, constructing often contradictory visions of it simultaneously.

THE NEW QUESTION Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times. THE NEW STUDY Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins''s prior work by its focus not just on performance, but also on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today. With a team of more than twenty researchers, Collins and Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness - beating their industry indexes by a minimum of ten times over fifteen years - in environments characterized by big forces and rapid shifts that leaders could not predict or control. The research team then contrasted these "10X companies" to a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to achieve greatness in similarly extreme environments. THE NEW FINDINGS The study results were full of provocative surprises. Such as: * The best leaders were not more risk taking, more visionary, and more creative than the comparisons; they were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid. * Innovation by itself turns out not to be the trump card in a chaotic and uncertain world; more important is the ability to scale innovation, to blend creativity with discipline. * Following the belief that leading in a "fast world" always requires "fast decisions" and "fast action" is a good way to get killed. * The great companies changed less in reaction to a radically changing world than the comparison companies. The authors challenge conventional wisdom with thought-provoking, sticky, and supremely practical concepts. They include 10Xers; the 20 Mile March; Fire Bullets then Cannonballs; Leading above the Death Line; Zoom Out, Then Zoom In; and the SMaC Recipe. Finally, in the last chapter, Collins and Hansen present their most provocative and original analysis: defining, quantifying, and studying the role of luck. The great companies and the leaders who built them were not luckier than the comparisons, but they did get a higher Return on Luck. This book is classic Collins: contrarian, data driven, and uplifting. He and Hansen show convincingly that, even in a chaotic and uncertain world, greatness happens by choice, not by chance.

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.

Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. 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 course. Collins'' research project—more than four years in duration—uncovered five step-wise stages of decline: Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death By understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom. Great companies can stumble, badly, and recover. Every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do. But, as Collins'' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover—in some cases, coming back even stronger—even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4. Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.