Jim Collins
The following article by Jim Collins was published by USA Today more than twenty years ago and offers insights of even greater value now than they were then. * * * Each time the New Year rolls around and I…
Read MoreThe material that follows is adapted from The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time: Apple, Ford, IBM, Zappos, and others made radical choices that changed the course of business, by Verne Harnish, CEO of Gazelles, and the editors of Fortune,…
Read MoreHBR’s 10 Must Reads on Change Management, Vol.2 Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (2021) “If that’s way you’ve always done it, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering This volume is one of several in a…
Read MoreOutgrowing Capitalism: Rethinking Money to Reshape Society and Pursue Purpose Marco Dondi Fast Company Press (October 2021) How and why monetism is “a practical recipe for harvesting the moneytree” Marco Dondi poses two separate but related questions in the Introduction…
Read MoreJim Collins introduced his concept of “The Flywheel Effect” in his book Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t (2001). No matter how dramatic the end result, good-to-great transformations never happen in one fell swoop. In…
Read MoreUseful Delusions: The Power & Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain Shankar Vedantam & Bill Mesler W.W. Norton & Company (March 2021) When context determines appropriateness As I began to read the first three chapters of this book, I was again…
Read MoreThe Imagination Machine: How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company’s Future Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller Harvard Business Review Press (June 2021) How to harness imagination systemically within the workplace to drive your company’s growth According to Martin…
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Building Your Company’s Vision
Here is an excerpt from another classic article written by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and…
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