Great by Choice, Jim Collins
Great by Choice, Jim Collins
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Great by Choice
Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

Author: Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen

Narrator: Jim Collins

Unabridged: 8 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/11/2011

Synopsis

Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, 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.

About Jim Collins

Jim Collins has published multiple international bestsellers that have sold in total more than 11 million copies worldwide, including the perennial favorite Good to Great. His writings and teachings are based on extensive research projects designed to uncover timeless principles of human endeavor and have had a lasting impact across all sectors of society. All of Jim’s books share a common thread: the study of people and how they navigate the big questions of leadership and life.  

About Morten T. Hansen

Morten T. Hansen is a management professor at the University of California, Berkeley (School of Information), and at INSEAD. Formerly a professor at Harvard Business School, Morten holds a PhD from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He is the author of Collaboration and the winner of the Administrative Science Quarterly Award for exceptional contributions to the field of organization studies. Previously a manager with the Boston Consulting Group, Morten consults and gives talks for companies worldwide.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Loy on February 14, 2012

What were some of the most shocking / memorable incidents you can recollect since the last 10 years? • 9/11? • The Financial Meltdown? Lehman Brothers? Billions getting wiped out? • The iPod, iPad, iPhone revolution? A lot has happened in the last 10 years. Giants who were invincible are now forever invi......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on August 25, 2016

It's really 183 pages (the rest is just research notes). The whole book is summarized on page 175. There's some interesting anecdotes and the ideas make sense, but this is a very slight (as in not very deep) book. What makes a company great is that they do deep analysis of the business, prepare, tak......more

Goodreads review by Marichka on December 12, 2017

Спочатку мені здалося, що ця книжка буде дуже нудною, але я знову помилилася :) Ще такого крутого опрацювання даних я ніколи не читала. Ця книжка - це дослідження того, що потрібно робити для побудови успішної компанії. Джим Коллінз зібрав дані (за період 10 років) про компанії, які досягли успіху і ї......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on September 08, 2012

I am a huge admirer of Jim Collins' research, methods and tight, accessible, methodical writing. "Great By Choice," however, suggests that perhaps the scholarly architecture that made his previous work so great may be losing a bit of its strength. There's a bit of a teabag on its third cup of tea he......more

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