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Jim Collins es un investigador y autor estadounidense especializado en liderazgo y gestión empresarial, conocido por obras como 'Good to Great' y 'Built to Last'. Bill Lazier fue profesor en la Stanford Graduate School of Business y coautor del original 'Beyond Entrepreneurship'.
Known for: Good to Great, Beyond Entrepreneurship, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't, Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
Books by Jim Collins
Good to Great
What separates a merely good company from one that becomes truly great? In Good to Great, Jim Collins tackles that question with unusual rigor, moving beyond inspirational slogans and management fads ...
Beyond Entrepreneurship
Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0 is Jim Collins and Bill Lazier’s guide to building a company that lasts. Originally published in 1992 and later expanded with Collins’s updated commentary, the book blends ...
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies es un estudio sobre las empresas visionarias que han perdurado y prosperado a lo largo del tiempo. Jim Collins y Jerry I. Porras analizan las ca...
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Why do some companies break out from mediocrity and sustain exceptional performance for years, while others with similar resources, talent, and opportunities never make the leap? In Good to Great, Jim...
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
In this influential management study, Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen explore why some companies and leaders succeed spectacularly in unpredictable environments while others fail. Drawing on nine yea...
How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
In this management study, Jim Collins explores why once-great companies decline and how some manage to recover. Drawing on empirical research, he identifies five stages of corporate decline—from hubri...
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Level 5 Leadership Drives Lasting Greatness
The most powerful leaders are often the least theatrical. One of Collins’s most surprising findings is that the companies that made the leap from good to great were not typically led by larger-than-life celebrities. Instead, they were guided by what he calls Level 5 leaders: individuals who combine ...
From Good to Great
First Who, Then What
Great strategy begins with people, not plans. Collins argues that before a company decides exactly where to go, it must first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people into the right seats. This reverses the common assumption that leaders should first set a ...
From Good to Great
Confront Brutal Facts Without Losing Faith
Hope is not a strategy, but pessimism is not leadership either. One of the most enduring ideas in Good to Great is the Stockdale Paradox: you must maintain unwavering faith that you will prevail in the end, while at the same time confronting the most brutal facts of your current reality. Collins bor...
From Good to Great
The Hedgehog Concept Simplifies Strategy
Complexity often feels intelligent, but greatness usually grows from clarity. Collins introduces the Hedgehog Concept to explain how great companies develop a simple, powerful strategic understanding grounded in the intersection of three questions: what can you be the best in the world at, what driv...
From Good to Great
A Culture of Discipline Beats Bureaucracy
When the right people share the right priorities, freedom and discipline can coexist. Collins argues that great companies build a culture of discipline: disciplined people who engage in disciplined thought and take disciplined action. In such an environment, organizations do not need excessive rules...
From Good to Great
Technology Accelerates, But Never Creates Greatness
Technology is powerful, but it is not a cure for strategic confusion. Collins found that good-to-great companies did not become great because they embraced technology first. Nor did they fear it. Instead, they used technology thoughtfully, as an accelerator of momentum already created by the right p...
From Good to Great
About Jim Collins
Jim Collins es un investigador y autor estadounidense especializado en liderazgo y gestión empresarial, conocido por obras como 'Good to Great' y 'Built to Last'. Bill Lazier fue profesor en la Stanford Graduate School of Business y coautor del original 'Beyond Entrepreneurship'.
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Jim Collins es un investigador y autor estadounidense especializado en liderazgo y gestión empresarial, conocido por obras como 'Good to Great' y 'Built to Last'. Bill Lazier fue profesor en la Stanford Graduate School of Business y coautor del original 'Beyond Entrepreneurship'.
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