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Brought to you by Penguin. THE QUESTION 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...

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 listeners 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.

Brought to you by Penguin. Can a good company become a great one? If so, how? After a five-year research project, Jim Collins concludes that good to great can and does happen. In this book, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organisation to make the leap from good to...

Ten years after the worldwide best seller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another ground-breaking 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.

Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from...

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?

Brought to you by Penguin. 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...

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 very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good...

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...

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...

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 go against the conventional wisdom. In hindsight, taking a different direction may seem easy, but these bet-the-company moves involve drama, doubt, and high tension.

Your midlife doesn't have to be a crisis. In fact, the second half of your life can be better than the first. Let bestselling author Bob Buford show you how. What do you want to do with the rest of your life? In Halftime, Buford provides encouragement and insight to propel your life on a new...

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.

Embark on an inspiring journey through Good to Great, a transformative guide for anyone striving to elevate their organization or personal endeavors. This audiobook unpacks the essential principles that distinguish truly great companies from the merely good, offering a blueprint for long-term success and sustainable impact.

Excelența în afaceri este o carte perenă, temele abordate în ea ajungând subiecte de studiu în cadrul programelor MBA. Este una dintre acele scrieri pe care managerii companiilor le citesc și le recitesc mereu, în ciuda trecerii timpului. Toate ideile prezentate reprezintă concluziile unei cercetări minuțioase, care a durat cinci ani, a peste 1400 de companii incluse în clasamentul Fortune 500. Acestea dezvăluie elementele-cheie ale construirii unei afaceri de succes, descriind modul în care doar 11 companii au reușit, de-a lungul timpului, să îndeplinească criteriile excelenței în afaceri.

Este libro presenta una selección de diez artículos imprescindibles sobre liderazgo, de los cientos que han sido publicados por la revista de la prestigiosa Universidad de Harvard, fuente de información de los líderes de hoy día. Artículos de reconocidos autores, como Daniel Goleman, Peter F. Drucker o John P. Kotter, que le ayudarán a maximizar su propio rendimiento y el de su organización.

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 anos eles compraram nada menos que três marcas americanas conhecidas globalmente: Budweiser, Burger King e Heinz. Tudo isso na mais absoluta discrição, esforçando-se para ficar longe dos holofotes. Sonho grande é o relato detalhado dos bastidores da trajetória desses empresários desde a fundação do banco Garantia, nos anos 70, até os dias de hoje.

Der Weltbestseller mit über 3 Millionen verkaufter Exemplare. Wie wird aus einem guten ein Spitzenunternehmen? Fragten sich der Management-Vordenker Jim Collins und seine Mitarbeiter und analysierten Unternehmen, die plötzlich Spitzenresultate erzielten und diese mindestens 15 Jahre halten konnten. Basierend auf den erstaunlichen Ergebnissen dieser Studie hat Collins sieben Schlüsselfaktoren herausgearbeitet, die für den Aufstieg jedes Unternehmens, aber auch jedes Einzelnen entscheidend sind. Sie fragen sich, welche Faktoren das sind? Dann hören Sie diesen Weltbestseller!

Wir können die Zukunft nicht vorhersehen. Aber wir können sie erschaffen. Ungewissheit, Chaos - na und? Trotz der anhaltenden wirtschaftlichen Unsicherheit florieren einige Unternehmen, während andere scheitern. Gleichermaßen betroffen von turbulenten Ereignissen und von massiven, schnelllebigen Wirkungskräften, die wir weder Voraussagen noch beeinflussen können - was unterscheidet diejenigen, die außerordentlich erfolgreich abschneiden, von denen, die unterdurchschnittlich oder noch schlechter abschneiden?

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. 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.