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Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
Hardcover
by Collins, Jim
- Publisher : Random House Business (2011), Edition: 1st (first), 320 pages
- Language : English
- Hardcover :
- ISBN-10 : 1847940889
- ISBN-13 : 9781847940889
- Weight : 1.05
- Dimensions : 24x3x16.2 cm
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins (2011)
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ISBN-10: 1847940889
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The new question: Ten years after the worldwide bestseller "Good to Great," Jim Collins returns to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? In "Great by Choice," Collins and his colleague, Morten T. Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times.
The new study: "Great by Choice" distinguishes itself from Collins's prior work by its focus on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today.
The new findings: The best leaders were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid. Following the belief that leading in a "fast world" always requires "fast decisions" and "fast action" is a good way to get killed. The great companies changed less in reaction to a radically changing world than the comparison companies.
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 by chance.