Built to last : successful habits of visionary companies /
Collins, James C. 1958-
Built to last : successful habits of visionary companies / [print] James C. Collins. - tenth edition. - New York, New York : HarperBusiness Publishers, [(c)2004. - xxvi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The best of the best Clock building, not time telling No "tyranny of the OR" More than profits Preserve the core/stimulate progress Big hairy audacious goals Cult-like cultures Try a lot of stuff and keep what works Home-grown management Good enough never is The end of the beginning Building the vision.
"Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies - they have an average age of nearly one hundred years and have outperformed the general stock market by a factor of fifteen since 1926 - and studied each company in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day - as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: "What makes the truly exceptional companies different from other companies?"" "Collins and Porras go beyond the incessant barrage of management buzzwords and fads of the day to discover timeless qualities that have consistently distinguished outstanding companies. They also provide inspiration to all executives and entrepreneurs by destroying the false but widely accepted idea that only charismatic visionary leaders can build visionary companies."
0060566108 9780060566104
Success in business--United States.
Industrial management--United States.
Entrepreneurship--United States.
United States
HF5386.C655.B855 2004 HF5386.P838.B855 2004
Built to last : successful habits of visionary companies / [print] James C. Collins. - tenth edition. - New York, New York : HarperBusiness Publishers, [(c)2004. - xxvi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The best of the best Clock building, not time telling No "tyranny of the OR" More than profits Preserve the core/stimulate progress Big hairy audacious goals Cult-like cultures Try a lot of stuff and keep what works Home-grown management Good enough never is The end of the beginning Building the vision.
"Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies - they have an average age of nearly one hundred years and have outperformed the general stock market by a factor of fifteen since 1926 - and studied each company in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day - as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: "What makes the truly exceptional companies different from other companies?"" "Collins and Porras go beyond the incessant barrage of management buzzwords and fads of the day to discover timeless qualities that have consistently distinguished outstanding companies. They also provide inspiration to all executives and entrepreneurs by destroying the false but widely accepted idea that only charismatic visionary leaders can build visionary companies."
0060566108 9780060566104
Success in business--United States.
Industrial management--United States.
Entrepreneurship--United States.
United States
HF5386.C655.B855 2004 HF5386.P838.B855 2004