How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins
How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins
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How the Mighty Fall
And Why Some Companies Never Give In

Author: Jim Collins

Narrator: Jim Collins

Unabridged: 4 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/19/2009


Synopsis

""Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.""—Jim CollinsDecline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed.Amid the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course. By understanding the stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom. As Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover—in some cases, coming back even stronger. As long as you never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.

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.  


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lucas on October 17, 2012

Like his prior research, Jim Collins looked at several companies and their direct comparisons to identify commonalities shared by the failing companies that were not present in the comparison (successful) companies. Study companies (those that succumbed to the five stages of decline): A&P Addressograph......more

Goodreads review by Sadie-Jane on December 03, 2014

[URL not allowed] Even the Greatest Can Fail THE Good to Great storyteller, Mr Jim Collins is back with How the Mighty Fall. Many great companies, even those that have lasted generations have fallen in recent years. This made Mr Collins question how and why it happens. More impo......more

Goodreads review by Alimanzoor on January 26, 2022

The often confronted, Good to Great author comes up with another striking analysis of how big companies fail. Readers who opt to love research-based analysis might find this book not fully convincing. People who are into business would better comprehend what Jim Collins says and certainly get some i......more

Goodreads review by Becky on May 31, 2024

Audiobook. Scary! Recommended for anyone with a job/ career/ no matter how large or small the company ..... including the business owner and C-suite. So basically the entire work force.......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on March 28, 2013

I never cease to be amazed at how awesome Collins' books are. In How The Mighty Fall, he addresses the patterns evident in great companies when they fall, and how those patterns might be identified and reversed early.......more