“jim collins”

The coauthor of the bestselling "Built to Last" now presents a blueprint for transforming good companies into great ones. Charts & graphs throughout.The Challenge "Built to Last," the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained ... More

Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, Collins concludes that good to great can and does happen. In this book, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations... More

'Good to Great is about turning good results into great results; Built to Last is about turning great results into an enduring great company' Jim Collins ‘This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market in... More

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 inevitabl... More

The author of the best-selling Good to Great turns his attention to the problems of the social and public sectors – and suggests how to improve them. 'We must reject the idea – well-intentioned, but dead wrong – that the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a... More

"Frances Hesselbein could manage any company in America." --Peter F. Drucker, "New York Times" "In this book Frances Hesselbein successfully integrates leadership with organization and society--something no one else has for far even tried to do." --Peter F. Drucker "Wisdom--extracted from vast exp... More

In the tradition of "The Boys of Summer, The Last Best League" is about dreams fulfilled and dreams denied, about Cape Cod and the rites of summer, and about the way one small town grows to love a group of young men coming of age in America.Every summer, in ten small towns across Cape Cod, the fines... More

Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained them. Some of the key concepts discerned in this study, comments Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some pe... More

A discussion of several UFO sightings including a description of the objects and speculations about their origins.... More