New Releases by Jim Collins

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.

A once-hidden mystery has now been revealed-THE SECRET TO ABUNDANT LIVING! The amazing key is entering a relationship with the Creator of all things-THEN EXPRESSING HIS DIVINE NATURE! In an easy-to-read, conversational style, author and motivational speaker Jim Collins helps you to discover this transformational truth, and then, more importantly, to put it into practice. Your life will be dramatically changed, and in the process-YOU WILL BECOME A CATALYST TO BRING CHANGE TO THIS WORLD! T! * Find keys to success in family, friendships, finances, and your spiritual calling! * Achieve optimum prosperity both materially and spiritually! * Love God more deeply and love others more freely! * Blossom with fruitfulness, purpose, success, and abundance! * Experience wholeness in body, mind, soul, and spirit!

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, the finest college baseball players in the country gather in hopes of making it to "The Show." The hopes are justifiably high: The Cape Cod Baseball League is the best amateur league in the world, producing one out of every six major league players. Ten years ago, Jim Collins chronicled a season in the life of one team: the Chatham A''s, perhaps the most celebrated team in the league. Set against the backdrop of a resort town on the bend of the outer Cape, the story charted the changing fortunes of a handful of players battling slumps and self-doubt in their effort to make the league playoffs and, more importantly, impress the major league scouts. Over the last decade, baseball''s hard truths became evident for the Chatham stars who went on to play professionally, and the final chapter of their story can now be written. In a new afterword for the tenth anniversary, Collins explores questions that sports literature rarely touches: What does it mean to devote your life to an almost impossible goal and almost but not quite make it? Or make it only briefly before it slips away? What does a dream look like in retrospect? How does the game look now?

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

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!

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.

Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins andhis colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly greatenterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times. This book isclassic Collins: contrarian, data-driven and uplifting.

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.

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world''s greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don''t. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

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

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.

¿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?

Author and motivational speaker, Jim Collins, explains how God''s Word can help you create the life you were designed to live by tapping into your God-given abilities. He emphasizes "life-application" of the truths in Scripture to help readers reach his or hers full potential. Beyond Positive Thinking expounds on the Scriptures, making them come alive so they are relatable to those living in the 21st Century. These principles will help readers achieve freedom from fear, anxiety and negative thinking.

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.

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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.