New Releases by Jim Collins

La zece ani după ce a scris bestsellerul Excelența în afaceri, Jim Collins revine – alături de Morten Hansen – pentru a răspunde la întrebări inedite. Concluziile cercetărilor întreprinse de cei doi autori sunt absolut surprinzătoare. Pe de o parte, cei mai mari lideri nu sunt mai vizionari sau mai creativi decât competitorii lor și nici nu își asumă mai multe riscuri; dar sunt mai disciplinați și mai pragmatici. Pe de altă parte, inovația în sine nu e un argument decisiv într-un mediu schimbător; mai importantă e abilitatea de a gestiona corect inovația, de a combina creativitatea cu disciplina. Collins și Hansen ajung astfel să contrazică înțelepciunea tradițională, formulând și explicând o serie de concepte inedite: „liderii 10X“, „marșul de 20 de mile“, „întâi gloanțe, apoi ghiulele“, „mai sus de linia morții“, „nu doar perspectiva, ci și detaliul“, „rețeta «specific, metodic și consecvent»“, „rezultatul șansei“ etc.

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.

A desperate rescue, a deadly betrayal, and a fight for survival in the void of space. When Capt. Jack Chambers, a retired Confederate officer and former covert operative, responds to a desperate plea from an old friend, he quickly finds himself entangled in a web of galactic intrigue. Tasked with rescuing the exiled Romanov royal family from the clutches of the Commonwealth, Jack must navigate a world of shifting alliances and ruthless enemies. What begins as a daring extraction turns into a battle for survival when the Commonwealth unleashes its fury, leaving Jack and his crew-an unlikely mix of fugitives, warriors, and children-fighting to stay one step ahead of their pursuers. Among his unexpected companions is Asteria, an Amazon warrioress whose loyalty and motives challenge Jack at every turn, and three Romanov heirs who carry the weight of their fallen empire on their shoulders. But danger doesn''t only come from outside. Haunted by the ghosts of his past and weighed down by the responsibility of his new crew, Jack must learn to trust again-both in himself and in those who stand by his side. As secrets unravel and enemies close in, Jack will need every ounce of skill and wit to protect his ship, his crew, and a treasure that could reshape the galaxy''s future. Packed with thrilling action, political intrigue, and unforgettable characters, The Shadow Hunter is a gripping tale of resilience, loyalty, and the cost of survival in a universe where every choice matters.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Pourquoi certaines entreprises, affichant des performances plutôt moyennes, décollent-elles soudain pour rejoindre le peloton de tête ? Qu''est-ce qui les différencie de leurs concurrentes ? Et peut-on étendre à d''autres les principes dont elles se sont inspirées ? Pendant cinq ans, Jim Collins et son équipe de chercheurs se sont attelés à cette vaste question pour débusquer le secret de la conversion à l''excellence. Onze entreprises, retenues pour leurs performances boursières très supérieures à celles de leur secteur, ont été comparées à leurs concurrentes. Les conclusions qui en ressortent sont étonnantes : loin des stratégies flamboyantes, menées à grand renfort de communication, la transition vers l''excellence s''est faite discrètement, sans stratégie préalable, sous l''impulsion de leaders au profil modeste. Plutôt que d''imposer leur vision, ces derniers ont cherché les meilleurs collaborateurs. Puis ils ont encouragé un débat intense et permanent au sein de l''entreprise. Ce qui a payé ? Le choix d''un concept simple guidant l''activité de l''entreprise, la détermination sans faille des dirigeants à le mettre en œuvre, une discipline de fer d''abord appliquée au sommet de la hiérarchie. Dérangeant ? Certes, mais bienvenu dans un contexte où certains dirigeants semblent avoir perdu la tête... « Ce qui fait la différence, c''est la somme de travail que s''impose Collins pour parvenir à ses conclusions qui sont d''autant plus fondées à produire des résultats si inattendus. » Financial Times

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.

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.

"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 Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies -- they have an average age of nearly one hundred years and have outperformed the general stock market by a factor of fifteen since 1926 -- and studied each company 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 other companies?" What separates General Electric, 3M, Merck, Wal-Mart, Hewlett-Packard, Walt Disney, and Philip Morris from their rivals? How, for example, did Procter & Gamble, which began life substantially behind rival Colgate, eventually prevail as the premier institution in its industry? How was Motorola able to move from a humble battery repair business into integrated circuits and cellular communications, while Zenith never became dominant in anything other than TVs? How did Boeing unseat McDonnell Douglas as the world''s best commercial aircraft company -- what did Boeing have that McDonnell Douglas lacked? By answering such questions, Collins and Porras go beyond the incessant barrage of management buzzwords and fads of the day to discover timeless qualities that have consistently distinguished out-standing companies. They also provide inspiration to all executives and entrepreneurs by destroying the false but widely accepted idea that only charismatic visionary leaders can build visionary companies. 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 twenty-first century and beyond.

Aleh Rumi, an Iranian-American woman, is an unlikely spy. An Oval Office decision pulls her into the world of espionage as she returns to Tehran to oversee her mother''s rehabilitation. Fueled by her longstanding hatred of the repressive Iranian regime and its treatment of women, she steals information about the government''s foreign policy decisions. Aleh underestimates the terrible costs her spying will have on her parents and herself. But the intelligence she sends to the U.S. will reshape the President''s Mideast policies. ..".brings readers into the operational side of the intelligence community, providing a seldom-seen view of the anxiety and action spies and their handlers endure. With this fast-paced, tense and realistic novel, Collins is hitting his stride as a storyteller." -Jason Frye, Teakettle Junction Productions, Inc. "The Walk In presents a conflict anyone would dread facing. Aleh''s desire to serve her adopted country battles with loyalty to her highly-placed family back home in Iran. Jim Collins takes us-with scenic word paintings and a punchy, straightforward style-wondering all the way to the end." -Linda Cross, Cape Fear Fiction Writers ..".an instantly engaging, original, and tautly drawn espionage thriller focused on a young woman torn between Iran, the land of her birth, and the United States, her adopted home. The novel is distinguished by suspense that builds on every page..." -Lee Ewing, writer and former intelligence officer "If you enjoy spy-thrillers, Jim Collins'' second novel has it all." -Linda Thomas, Cape Fear Fiction Writers

Enumerates the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times.

Discusses signs pointing toward the decline of a business, how far the decline can proceed before failure becomes inevitable, and crucial steps companies can take to reverse course.

A look at how technology and literary, visual, and consumer cultures have combined over the past two decades to transform a once solitary, print-based experience into an exuberantly social activity.

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.