Great by Choice (Hardcover) (Jim Collins & Morten Hansen)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br> Collins returns with another groundbreaking 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 Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times. <p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br> Ten years after the worldwide bestseller <em>Good to Great</em>, 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, Collins andhis colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly greatenterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times. This book isclassic Collins: contrarian, data-driven and uplifting <p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br> <p>The new study<br/><em>Great by Choice</em> distinguishes itself from Collins's prior work by its focus not just on performance, but also on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today.</p><p>With a team of more than twenty researchers, Collins and Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness--beating their industry indexes by a minimum of ten times over fifteen years--in environments characterized by big forces and rapid shifts that leaders could not predict or control. The research team then contrasted these "10X companies" to a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to achieve greatness in similarly extreme environments.</p><p>The new findings<br/>The study results were full of provocative surprises. Such as: </p><ul><li>The best leaders were not more risk taking, more visionary, and more creative than the comparisons; they were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid.</li><li>Innovation by itself turns out not to be the trump card in a chaotic and uncertain world; more important is the ability to scale innovation, to blend creativity with discipline.</li><li>Following the belief that leading in a "fast world" always requires "fast decisions" and "fast action" is a good way to get killed.</li><li>The great companies changed less in reaction to a radically changing world than the comparison companies.</li></ul><p>The authors challenge conventional wisdom with thought-provoking, sticky, and supremely practical concepts. They include: 10Xers; the 20 Mile March; Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs; Leading above the Death Line; <em>Zoom Out</em>, Then <em>Zoom In</em>; and the SMaC Recipe.</p><p>Finally, in the last chapter, Collins and Hansen present their most provocative and original analysis: defining, quantifying, and studying the role of luck. The great companies and the leaders who built them were not luckier than the comparisons, but they did get a higher Return on Luck. </p><p>This book is classic Collins: contrarian, data-driven, and uplifting. He and Hansen show convincingly that, even in a chaotic and uncertain world, greatness happens by choice, not chance.</p> <p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br> "A sensible, well-timed and precisely targeted message for companies shaken by macroeconomic crises"--<em>Financial Times</em> </br></br>"Collins and Hansen draw some interesting and counterintuitive conclusions from their research....far from a dry work of social science. Mr. Collins has a way with words, not least with metaphor."--<em>Wall Street Journal</em> </br></br>Entrepreneurs and business leaders may find the concepts in this book useful for making choices to increase their odds of building a great company.--<em>Booklist</em>
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