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?

iving Longer and Stronger with CBD provides the reader with a wealth of information about the miracle molecule known as cannabidiol, or CBD. Whether you are currently using CBD, want to learn more about it, or are a health care provider, this book contains the latest science-based evidence you''ll need to understand the potential eff ectiveness of this plant-derived medicine. Jim Collins, PhD, takes the reader on a long ride from the basics about CBD to its medicinal uses for physical, mental, emotional, and neurological conditions. Hemp and cannabis plants have been used in virtually every culture on the planet for thousands of years to treat everything from pain and nausea to stress, and even cancer. e resurgence in cannabis-based medicine and CBD is due to its success in hundreds of scientifi c studies as well as the 2018 Farm Bill, which changed the classifi cation of hemp from a Schedule I substance to a nutritional supplement. Get ready to learn about how CBD can improve the aging process and help with the following physical health issues:Arthritis / Cancer / Cardiovascular disease / Diabetes / Endocrine disorders / Fibromyalgia / Gastrointestinal disorders / Headaches and migraines / Pain / Respiratory disorders / Seizures and epilepsy / Skin Conditions You will also read research results on CBD and its impact on emotional and mental conditions, including the following:Addiction / Anxiety / Depression / Eating disorders / OCD / PTSD / Schizophrenia / Sleep disorders Special attention is provided to CBD and how it can help symptoms of the following neurodegenerative diseases:Alzheimer''s / Huntington''s / Parkinson''s / Multiple sclerosis / ALS Living Longer and Stronger with CBD also provides the reader with information about end-of-life care and how CBD may be used to better manage diffi cult symptoms and promote quality of life and death. e book provides practical information on choosing products that are right for you and even your pets. Read about what the future may have in store for CBD in prevention, health and wellness, and medicine. It is a must-read for anyone who uses CBD or wants to learn about its potential to heal the body and mind.

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.

¿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.

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.

Vajon a kiemelkedő vállalatok nagyobb kockázatot vállalnak, mint a többiek? Mekkora a szerencse és az innováció szerepe a tartósan jó teljesítményben? Hogyan egyensúlyozhatunk fegyelmezettség és kreativitás között? Az üzleti életben már jó ideje gyorsan változó trendek, káoszt teremtő átalakulások, felforgató újítások közepette kell boldogulnunk. Jelentős kihívás ilyen körülmények között stratégiai tervet készíteni és az innovációt támogató szervezeti kultúrát kialakítani, még inkább tartósan kiemelkedő teljesítményt nyújtani. Mégis vannak olyan vállalatok, amelyek évtizedeken át képesek erre – ráadásul a piaci átlaghoz viszonyítva legalább tízszeres eredményt érnek el. A Tudatosan kiváló szerzői a vezetéstudomány elismert szakértői. Érzékletes történetekkel tarkított, statisztikai alapokon nyugvó átfogó vizsgálatukból kiderül, mi a közös ezekben a vállalatokban, és mit csinálnak másképp a csak ideig-óráig sikeres versenytársaikhoz képest. A szerzők olykor meglepő felismerései és az ezek nyomán megfogalmazott alapelvei segítségével a saját szervezetünkben is alkalmazhatjuk a kiváló vállalatok sikerreceptjeit.

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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.

The classic Harvard Business Review articles every manager and aspiring leader should read--and share with their teams--from such bestselling Harvard Business Review authors as Peter Drucker, Clayton Christensen, John Kotter, Daniel Goleman, Jim Collins, Gary Hamel, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, and many more. Each compact book represents the most important ideas on management, leadership, and life. Build your professional library and advance your career with these 16 timeless business classics. The HBR Classics Boxed Set includes: Peter Drucker''s bestselling "Managing Oneself," "What Makes an Effective Executive," and "The Theory of the Business"; Clayton Christensen''s inspiring "How Will You Measure Your Life?"; Daniel Goleman''s articles on emotional intelligence--"Leadership That Gets Results" and "What Makes a Leader?"; author of Good to Great Jim Collins''s "Turning Goals into Results"; W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne''s "Blue Ocean Leadership" and "Red Ocean Traps"; John Kotter''s "Managing Your Boss"; Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith''s "The Discipline of Teams"; Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad''s "Strategic Intent"; William A. Sahlman''s "How to Write a Great Business Plan"; Chris Argyris''s "Teaching Smart People How to Learn"; Theodore Levitt''s "Marketing Myopia"; Joseph B. Pine''s "Do You Want to Keep Your Customers Forever?". The Harvard Business Review Classics series offers you the opportunity to make seminal Harvard Business Review articles 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--and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.

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

Every summer, in ten small towns across Cape Cod, young college baseball players showcase their talents in hopes of making it to the "show." A vicious filter, the league has produced one out of every six major league players, from Nomar Garciaparra and Todd Helton to Jeff Bagwell and Barry Zito.In this brilliantly crafted narrative, Jim Collins chronicles a season in the life of the Chatham A''s, perhaps the most celebrated team in the Cape Cod Baseball League. Set against a seemingly bucolic backdrop--a well-heeled resort town on the bend of the outer Cape -- the story charts the changing fortunes of a handful of players, all of whom battle slumps and self-doubt in an effort to impress major league scouts and make the playoffs. Several players go home with career-threatening injuries; one blue-chip prospect fulfills great expectations while another is dubbed "the biggest disappointment on the Cape." A pitcher hides an arm injury while negotiating a minor league contract; another leaves early to tend to his dying father. And nearly all look to the following year''s major league draft as a barometer of their worth. Far more than a baseball book, The Last Best League is an engrossing story about dreams fulfilled and dreams destroyed, about Cape Cod and the rites of summer, about coming of age in America.

In this Summary Jim Collins and his team of researchers used strict benchmarks to identify a group of eleven elite companies that made the leap from good to great and sustained that greatness for at least fifteen years. To Busy to read the whole book ? Then this Summary is for U!

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.

¿Cómo pueden sobresalir las empresas?, ¿cuáles son las características diferenciadoras universales que hacen que una compañía pueda sobresalir respecto a las otras? Tras un amplio estudio, Collins y su equipo de investigación identificaron una serie de empresas que experimentaron un importante progreso fruto de sus magníficos resultados y que, además, los mantuvieron durante al menos quince años. Después de dar el salto, estas empresas generaron una rentabilidad acumulada de las acciones que superó al mercado bursátil en general, en una media de siete veces durante quince años, mejor que el doble de los resultados obtenidos por un índice, compuesto por las principales empresas del mundo, incluidas Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric y Merck. El equipo de investigación contrastó las diferencias existentes entre este grupo de empresas, y otro que no lo había logrado ¿En qué se diferenciaban entre sí?, ¿por qué unas se volvieron muy rentables y otras no? Durante cinco años se analizó el historial de las veintiocho empresas del estudio. Después de valorar montañas de datos y miles de páginas de entrevistas, Collins y su equipo descubrieron las claves determinantes de la grandeza, o lo que es lo mismo: por qué algunas empresas sobresalen y otras no. Las conclusiones, plasmadas en este libro, sorprenderán y darán luz sobre todas las áreas de la estrategia y la práctica de la gestión: • El liderazgo necesario para dirigir una empresa • El concepto de erizo (simplicidad dentro de los tres círculos). • Cultura de la disciplina • Aceleradores de tecnología • El disco y la espiral de declive Este libro, elegido por medios de referencia como uno de los mejores de la pasada década, está considerado como la fórmula para el éxito de cualquier empresa. Por tanto, ¿quién puede permitirse ignorar sus conclusiones?