Good to Great Built to Last CD: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Book 2, (Audiobook)

from brikis98

A well written, thoroughly researched, and actionable book on how to build great companies. A must read for any founder, CEO, or manager.Some fun quotes:Visionary companies distinguish their timeless core values and enduring purpose (which should never change) from their operating practices and b...

from litse08

"Uhrmacher, nicht Zeitansager" Das Buch ist die Zusammenfassung einer Studie der Autoren, die 18 Amerikanische Unternehmen mit hoher Performance (Aktienrendite über viele Jahre) mit 18 etwa gleich alten durchschnittlichen Unternehmen verglichen haben. Das Ziel der Studie war es, die Charakteristi...

from Adewoye

A wonderful book. Preserve your organization's core ideology, but stimulate change relentlessly.

from Dilip-Kumar

A study of 18 pairs of companies in different product spaces, one of each pair very successful and the other not so much (as judged by returns to stock up to 1990). They find that many assumptions about what makes a company great in the long term are just 'myths'; they list 12 such popular (mis)c...

from shawnd

An innovative business book. Collins - a business school professor - decided to do an experiment using the scientific method to identify using stock performance companies that were majorly outperforming peers, then comparing them to sister companies or competitors who were performing on par with ...