Quicklet on Good to Great by Jim Collins (CliffNotes-like Book Summary, Review, Analysis)

!±8±Quicklet on Good to Great by Jim Collins (CliffNotes-like Book Summary, Review, Analysis)

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We recently underwent an overhaul of our Quicklets to focus on commentary, analysis, and criticism from our expert writing team.

In addition, our Quicklets include an overall summary, brief chapter summaries, a description of key characters and themes, fun trivia, and a selection of great online readings.

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Jim Collins is a renowned scholar, distinguished professor and a highly sought-after management consultant. His work explores the ins and outs of great companies and leaders—examining their growth, ability to achieve exceptional results and transformations into enduring business icons. Collins has authored and co-authored six books spanning two decades. The classic Built to Last, written with Jerry I. Porras, was published in 1994 and remained a fixture on the Business Week best seller list for more than six years. His work has been featured in various notable publications, including Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Harvard Business Review and Fast Company.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't was published in 2001 by HarperBusiness, a division of Harper Collins Publishers. Good to Great has become a national bestseller, selling more than 3 million hardcover copies since publication. It attained long-running positions on the best seller lists for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Business Week.

This modern classic on management theory has been translated in 35 languages, including Latvian, Mongolian and Vietnamese. On Amazon, Good to Great consistently ranks in the top 150 to 200 books overall, while often holding the #1 sales position for the Company Profiles, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, and Systems & Planning categories.

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Chapter 1: Introduction
->Background Information for ‘Good to Great’ by Jim Collins
->Important People in ‘Good to Great’ by Jim Collins
->Key Terms in ‘Good to Great’ by Jim Collins
->The 3 Ingredients for Greatness in ‘Good to Great’ by Jim Collins
->Overall Summary for ‘Good to Great’ by Jim Collins

Chapter 2: Additional Reading
->Related Online Content for ‘Good to Great’ by Jim Collins
->Trivia for ‘Good to Great’ by Jim Collins

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Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

!±8±Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

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The new question
Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times.

The new study
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.

The new findings
The study results were full of provocative surprises. Such as:

• The best leaders were not more risk taking, more visionary, and more creative than the comparisons; they were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid.
• Innovation by itself turns out not to be the trump card in a chaotic and uncertain world; more important is the ability to scale innovation, to blend creativity with discipline.
• Following the belief that leading in a “fast world” always requires “fast decisions” and “fast action” is a good way to get killed.
• The great companies changed less in reaction to a radically changing world than the comparison companies.

The authors challenge conventional wisdom with thought-provoking, sticky, and supremely practical concepts. They include: 10Xers; the 20 Mile March; Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs; Leading above the Death Line; Zoom Out, Then Zoom In; and the SMaC Recipe.

Finally, in the last chapter, Collins and Hansen present their most provocative and original analysis: defining, quantifying, and studying the role of luck. The great companies and the leaders who built them were not luckier than the comparisons, but they did get a higher Return on Luck.

This book is classic Collins: contrarian, data-driven, and uplifting. He and Hansen show convincingly that, even in a chaotic and uncertain world, greatness happens by choice, not chance.

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!±8± Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results

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Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results

In "Collaboration", author Morten Hansen takes aim at what many leaders inherently know: in today's competitive environment, companywide collaboration is an imperative for successful strategy execution, yet the sought-after synergies are rarely, if ever, realized. In fact, most cross-unit collaborative efforts end up wasting time, money, and resources. How can managers avoid the costly traps of collaboration and instead start getting the results they need? In this book, Hansen shows managers how to get collaboration right through 'disciplined collaboration'. Based on the author's long-running research, in-depth case studies, and company interviews, "Collaboration" delivers practical advice and tools to help your organization collaborate for real results.

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Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results

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