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Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Hardback)

Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Hardback)

James Collins (author), Jerry Porras (author), Jim Collins (author)

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Hardback 368 Pages / Published: 01/09/2005

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Synopsis

'This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies.' Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each company in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day - as start-ups, as midsize companies and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: 'What makes the truly exceptional companies different from other companies?' Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond.

Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9781844135844
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 625 g
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 33 mm

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"'One of the most eye-opening business studies since In Search of Excellence.'" -- Kevin Maney * USA Today *
"'Built to Last is an unusual business book - seriously researched, unconventional in its conclusions...[It] is well worth reading, particularly by those engaged in trying to reinvigorate our nation's largest enterprises.' " -- Richard J. Tofel * Wall Street Journal *
"'In Built to Last, Collins and Porras present a brilliant and lucid analysis and, yes, a blueprint for organizational excellence. It should be required reading.'" -- Warren Bennis