books by James C. Collins (successful collision catalytic)

books by James C. Collins

books:

Managing The Small To Midsized Company: Concept and Cases
James C. Collins, William C. Lazier

Irwin Professional Publishing, 1994

A combination of 29 cases from Stanford and Harvard, and 11 chapters covering managing a small to mid-sized business

Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company

11 reviews
James C. Collins, William C. Lazier

Prentice Hall Trade, 1992

A masterpiece!........Planning to become great
I'm not surprised why this book have 5 stars...it deserves 10. This book not only explains which are the key success drivers for an organization to become great, but also lets us know what to do in order to achieve results on each of these drivers. I work in the Planning division of a major insurance company...I have read lots of stuff about strategic planning, and I find the content of this book ...

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

146 reviews
James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras

HarperCollins Publishers, 1997

A Classic
"Built to Last" is an enlightening and interesting classic on business strategic management. The authors, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras spent six years in research and compared the practices of 18 visionary companies in the USA to those of a matched set of good, though not great, companies. Their fundamental observation is that average companies are driven by the power of "or:" You can have either ...

Building Your Company's Vision (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

2 reviews
James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras

Harvard Business Review, 2000

The components of visionary companies
James Collins is a management researcher from Boulder (Colorado) and Jerry Porras is a professor of organizational behavior and change at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. This article is based on their novel 'Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies'. In this 1996-article, the authors explain the successful companies have core values and core purpose that remain fixed ...

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

687 reviews
Jim Collins

Collins Business, 2001

A New Way to Look at Growing Your Business
"Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't" by Jim Collins was a real eye opener for me. In this book, Jim Collins, observes 28 companies over the span of 5 years. Over this period of time 11 of the companies make the leap from "Good to Great". The findings in this book were truly eye opening and inspirational. I loved the chapter on Level 5 leadership. Collins ...

Turning Goals into Results: The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

2 reviews
James C. Collins

Harvard Business Review, 2000

Use catalytic mechanisms to build a company's wildest dreams
Jim Collins operates a management research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Together with Jerry I. Porras he wrote the bestseller 'Built to Last' (1994), which he later followed-up with super-bestseller 'Good to Great' (2001). This article was published in the July-August 1999 issue of the Harvard Business Review. Most executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG). So what is a BHAG? It has ...