Jim Collins: 18 books
Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
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?...
Turning the Flywheel
A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
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...
Bring on the Books for Everybody
How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on...
How the Mighty Fall
And Why Some Companies Never Give In
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
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...
Good To Great And The Social Sectors
A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
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.
Great by Choice
Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
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,...
Built to Last
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
"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...
The Last Best League, 10th anniversary edition
One Summer, One Season, One Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
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...
Turning Goals into Results (Harvard Business Review Classics)
The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
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...
De la performance à l'excellence
Devenir une entreprise leader
Language: French
Release Date: April 5, 2013
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...
Fortune The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time
How Apple, Ford, IBM, Zappos, and others made radical choices that changed the course of business
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Decisions equal success--nothing happens until one is made. Businesses make millions of decisions every day. But once in a great while a leader makes a truly game-changing decision that shifts not only the strategy of a single company but how everyone does business. These big decisions are counterintuitive-they...
Beyond Positive Thinking
Success and Motivation in the Scriptures
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
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...
Uncommon Cultures
Popular Culture and Post-Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
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.
by Cristiane Correa, Jim Collins
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Jorge Paulo Lemann, Marcel Telles e Beto Sicupira ergueram, em pouco mais de quatro décadas, o maior império da história do capitalismo brasileiro e ganharam uma projeção sem precedentes no cenário mundial. Nos últimos cinco anos eles compraram nada menos que três marcas americanas conhecidas...
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