Great by Choice

Produktbeschreibung

The new study Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collinsâ€Ös 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. 

Kritik

"A sensible, well-timed and precisely targeted message for companies shaken by macroeconomic crises" Financial Times 

Autoreninfo

Jim Collins ist ein international renommierter und gefragter Managementvordenker. Der ehemalige McKinsey-Berater gründete 1995 sein Managementzentrum in Boulder, Colorado, das langfristige Forschungsprojekte zu den Managementgrundsätzen von Spitzenunternehmen sowie Seminare für Führungskräfte durchführt. Seine Bücher wurden internationale Bestseller.