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Built to last : successful habits of visionary companies / Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Random House, 2005.Edition: 10th anniversary edDescription: xxvi, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1844135845
  • 9781844135844
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.421 COL
Contents:
Ch. 1. The best of the best -- Ch. 2. Clock building, not time telling -- Interlude : no "tyranny of the OR" -- Ch. 3. More than profits -- Ch. 4. Preserve the core / stimulate progress -- Ch. 5. Big hairy audacious goals -- Ch. 6. Cult-like cultures -- Ch. 7. Try a lot of stuff and keep what works -- Ch. 8. Home-grown management -- Ch. 9. Good enough never is -- Ch. 10. The end of the beginning -- Ch. 11. Building the vision -- Epilogue : frequently asked questions -- App. Founding roots of visionary companies and comparison companies.
Review: "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 t.Summary: By answering such questions, 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 ex.
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Standard Loan Thurles Library Main Collection 658.421 COL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R19237JKRC

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'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 about visionary companies.' 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 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?' Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond.

Previous ed.: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. The best of the best -- Ch. 2. Clock building, not time telling -- Interlude : no "tyranny of the OR" -- Ch. 3. More than profits -- Ch. 4. Preserve the core / stimulate progress -- Ch. 5. Big hairy audacious goals -- Ch. 6. Cult-like cultures -- Ch. 7. Try a lot of stuff and keep what works -- Ch. 8. Home-grown management -- Ch. 9. Good enough never is -- Ch. 10. The end of the beginning -- Ch. 11. Building the vision -- Epilogue : frequently asked questions -- App. Founding roots of visionary companies and comparison companies.

"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 t.

By answering such questions, 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 ex.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jim Collins holds B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University. A visiting professor of business administration at Stanford Graduate School of Business, he is a management consultant. He has written several articles for the Harvard Business Review, Inc., Fortune magazine, California Management Review and Stanford Magazine.

He is the co-author of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies; Managing the Small to Mid-Sized Firm: Readings, Cases and Instructor's Manual; Beyond Entrepreneurship; and Great by Choice. He has also worked with Hewlett Packard and McKinsey & Co.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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