Built to Last - Jim Collins - Audio Book CD
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"Good to Great is about turning superior results into ideal results; Built to Last is about turning fantastic results into an enduring fantastic
business." thus write Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in this groundbreaking book
that shatters myths, delivers modern insights, and offers useful guidance to
those who would like to build landmark firms that stand the test of time.
Drawing upon a six-year analysis project at the Stanford University Graduate
School of Company, Collins and Porras took eighteen really exceptional and
long-lasting firms and studied each organization in direct comparison to 1 of
its top competitors. They examined the firms from their quite beginnings to
the present day, as start-ups, as midsize businesses, and as big firms.
Throughout, the authors asked: "What makes the really exceptional businesses
different from additional businesses?"
Collins and Porras go beyond the incessant barrage of administration buzzwords
and fads of the day to discover timeless attributes that have consistently
recognized great firms. They moreover supply inspiration to all
professionals and entrepreneurs by destroying the false but commonly accepted idea
that just charismatic visionary leaders will build visionary businesses.
Filled with hundreds of particular examples and organized into a coherent
framework of useful concepts that is used by managers and
entrepreneurs at all degrees, Built to Last delivers a master blueprint for
building companies that usually prosper lengthy into the twenty-first century and
beyond.
About The Author Jim Collins
Jim Collins is a student and instructor of enduring excellent businesses -- how they grow, how they achieve superior performance, and how wise businesses could become superb businesses. Having invested over a decade of analysis into the topic, Jim has authored or co-authored 4 books, including the classic BUILT TO LAST, a fixture found on the Company Week right seller list for over six years, and has been translated into 25 languages. His function has been showcased in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Company Week, Harvard Company Review, and Fast Company.
Jim’s latest book, GOOD TO GREAT: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don’t attained long-running positions found on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Company Week right seller lists, has sold 2.5 million hardcover duplicates since publication and has been translated into 32 languages.
Driven by a relentless curiosity, Jim started his analysis and training profession found on the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Company, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. In 1995, he founded a administration laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, where he today conducts analysis and teaches professionals within the business and social sectors.
Jim has served as a instructor to senior professionals and CEOs at over a 100 businesses. He has equally worked with social sector companies, such as: Johns Hopkins Medical School, the Girl Scouts of the USA, the Leadership Network of Churches, the American Association of K-12 School Superintendents, and the United States Marine Corps. In 2005 he published a monograph: Great to Great and the Social Sectors.
Jim invests a substantial part of his stamina in large-scale analysis projects -- usually five or even more years in length -- to develop fundamental insights and then translate those results into books, articles and lectures. He utilizes his administration laboratory to function straight with professionals and to develop useful tools for applying the concepts that flow from his analysis.
Additionally, Jim is an avid rock climber and has produced free ascents of the West Face of El Capitan and the East Face of Washington Column in Yosemite Valley.
About the co-Author Jerry Porras
Jerry Porras, Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change, Emeritus,
at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Company, is co-author of Built
to Last: Effective Habits of Visionary Companies, 1 of Forbes’ 20 many
influential company books.
Thirty years ago Porras co-developed the very lucrative MBA class
Interpersonal Dynamics, tailored to lead pupils through the procedure of
learning individual fashion and improving the means they relate to others. He
has a comprehensive and impressive background including having served found on the
editorial boards of half a dozen journals and has authored 2 books and over
40 scholarly articles. He additionally served Stanford University as the faculty
athletic representative to the NCAA and as president of the Pacific-10
Conference Council.
Porras enlightens viewers with his groundbreaking theories of lucrative
business. He debunks myths about what makes firms lucrative by tracing
the attributes of the chosen group of visionary firms that demonstrate
enduring core values, a purpose beyond income, along with a dedicated workforce.
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