Great by choice : uncertainty, chaos, and luck : why some thrive despite them all / Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen.

By:

Collins, James C. (James Charles), 1958-

Contributor(s):

Hansen, Morten T

Publication details: New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780062120991
0062120999
9780062121004
0062121006

Subject(s): DDC classification:

658.4/09 23

LOC classification:

HF5386 .C736 2011

NLM classification:

HF 5386

Contents:

Thriving in uncertainty -- 10xers -- Mile march -- Fire bullets, then cannonballs -- Leading above the death line -- SMaC -- Return on luck -- Epilogue: great by choice -- Frequently asked questions.

Summary: "Great by Choice" distinguishes itself from Collins's prior work by its focus not just on performance, but also on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today. With a team of more than twenty researchers, Collins and Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness--beating their industry indexes by a minimum of ten times over fifteen years--in environments characterized by big forces and rapid shifts that leaders could not predict or control. The research team then contrasted these "10X companies" to a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to achieve greatness in similarly extreme environments.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	USTC Central Library Academic book shelf 15	658.4/09	1	Available		14977

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-293) and index.

Thriving in uncertainty -- 10xers -- Mile march -- Fire bullets, then cannonballs -- Leading above the death line -- SMaC -- Return on luck -- Epilogue: great by choice -- Frequently asked questions.

"Great by Choice" distinguishes itself from Collins's prior work by its focus not just on performance, but also on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today. With a team of more than twenty researchers, Collins and Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness--beating their industry indexes by a minimum of ten times over fifteen years--in environments characterized by big forces and rapid shifts that leaders could not predict or control. The research team then contrasted these "10X companies" to a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to achieve greatness in similarly extreme environments.

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