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Collins studied Mathematics at Stanford University, and afterwards obtained his Master of Business Administration followed by 18 months as a consultant with McKinsey & Company.
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The Topline Summary of Jim Collins' How the Mighty Fall - Why Some Companies NEVER Give In (Topline Summaries)
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Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst 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. Collins' research project—more than four years in duration—uncovered five step-wise stages of decline: Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death By understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom. Great companies can stumble, badly, and recover. Every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do. But, as Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover—in some cases, coming back even stronger—even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4. Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.
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- by Jim Collins, by Jerry I. Porras Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials)(text only)3rd (Third) editionPaperback2002
- James C. Collins: Good to Great and the Social Sectors a Monograph to Accompany Good to Great (Paperback); 2005 Edition
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He then worked as a product manager for Hewlett-Packard. In 1995, he founded a management laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, where he now conducts research and teaches executives from the corporate and social sectors. During that time, has served as a senior executive at Cable News Network International, and also worked with social sector organizations, such as: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, the Leadership Network of Churches, the American Association of K-12 School Superintendents, and the United States Marine Corps.
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(Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking is Not the Answer ) Author: James C Collins Apr-2006
(Building upon the concepts introduced in Good to Great, J...)
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The Topline Summary of Jim Collins' How the Mighty Fall - Why Some Companies NEVER Give In (Topline Summaries)
(The Topline Summary in a Sentence is: By understanding th...)
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A Summary of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
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How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
( Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Declin...)
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Good to Great and the Social Sectors a Monograph to Accompany Good to Great (Paperback)--by James C. Collins 2005 Edition ISBN: 9780977326402
(Exactly as described. Trying to clean out clutter & get o...)
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Built to Last Successful Habits of Visionary Companies Harper Business Essentials paperback
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- by Jim Collins, by Jerry I. Porras Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials)(text only)3rd (Third) editionPaperback2002
- James C. Collins: Good to Great and the Social Sectors a Monograph to Accompany Good to Great (Paperback); 2005 Edition
- How the Mighty Fall CD: And Why Some Companies Never Give In By Jim Collins(A)/Jim Collins(N) Audiobook
- How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins (4-Jun-2009) Hardcover
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials)
- Collins, Jim_How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give in
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(Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking is Not the Answer ) Author: James C Collins Apr-2006
