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Good To Great And The Social Sectors Unabr CD: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

2 reviews

HarperAudio, 2006

Excellent Follow Up To Good to Great
I found Good To Great very helpful and since I work in a church setting this monograph filled in some of the gaps. I highly recommend this book.

Good to Great CD: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't

686 reviews

HarperAudio, 2005

A New Way to Look at Growing Your Business
"Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't" by Jim Collins was a real eye opener for me. In this book, Jim Collins, observes 28 companies over the span of 5 years. Over this period of time 11 of the companies make the leap from "Good to Great". The findings in this book were truly eye opening and inspirational. I loved the chapter on Level 5 leadership. Collins ...

The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream

25 reviews
Jim Collins

Da Capo Press, 2005

Baseball at its purest
Simply a fantastic book. Well-researched, intriguing, personal, etc. Shows why baseball is unique as compared to all other sports. There are so many nuances always to explore. The Central Illinois League, another amateur summer league, is a good example of a smaller version of the Cape Cod League as well. Either way, this book was an easy read on a long plane ride. No other sport could have ...

Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

61 reviews
Jim Collins

HarperCollins, 2005

Excellent companion addressing not-for-profits' unique needs
Jim Collins is the author of "Good to Great," an influential business and leadership book. In the time since the publication of the book, Collins realized that there exist points of disconnect within the book for leaders of not-for-profit agencies (e.g. churches, local charitable organizations, groups that exist for specific causes like disease eradication or the advancement of art). In an ...

Mutual Funds for Dummies

57 reviews
Eric Tyson

Wiley, 2004

Making WISE Mutual Fund Investments
We all know every Mutual Fund associate thinks THEIR fund is the best on the market, hence the NEED for a non-partisan book that helps you understand WHAT to look for in a GOOD Mutual Fund. If that sounds like you, I HIGHLY recommend this book. It is TRULY what it says it is...you may be a beginning investor when you begin the book, but you'll feel confident enough to make thorough investigations ...

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

146 reviews
Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras

Collins, 2004

A Classic
"Built to Last" is an enlightening and interesting classic on business strategic management. The authors, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras spent six years in research and compared the practices of 18 visionary companies in the USA to those of a matched set of good, though not great, companies. Their fundamental observation is that average companies are driven by the power of "or:" You can have either ...

The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment

15 reviews
Michael Ray, Jim Collins

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004

A Life Changing Book--Truly Transformational
I recently read on Google that a thousand books are published every day in the United States. However, in my opinion, there are only a very few that are personally transformational or life changing. My short list of books that changed my thinking or made me sit up and take notice includes: "The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck "The Art of Selfishness" by David Seabury "Man's Search for ...

Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company

11 reviews
James Collins, William C. Lazier

Prentice Hall Press, 1995

A masterpiece!........Planning to become great
I'm not surprised why this book have 5 stars...it deserves 10. This book not only explains which are the key success drivers for an organization to become great, but also lets us know what to do in order to achieve results on each of these drivers. I work in the Planning division of a major insurance company...I have read lots of stuff about strategic planning, and I find the content of this book ...

Seattle Then and Now (Then & Now)

8 reviews
Jim Collins

Thunder Bay Press, 2002

A book about a town that literally recreated itself
This is a really interesting coffee table book with great historical photographs. This book illustrates how ambitious the city & urban planners were remaking the difficult hilly terrain often interrupted with water into what is today the Seattle & the "Eastside." I disagree with the other negative reviews of this book who claim to speak from a native Seattle-ite point of view. Lets face it, the ...

Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

4 reviews
Jim Collins

Harvard Business Review, 2001

Leadership to outperform the market
Jim Collins operates a management research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Together with Jerry I. Porras he wrote the bestseller 'Built to Last' (1994). This article was published in the January 2001 issue of the Harvard Business Review. This article reports on the author's research into how good companies can become great ones. "We looked for companies that had shifted from good performance to ...

Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism
Jim Collins

Routledge, 1989

Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to envision that culture in conflicting ways, constructing often contradictory visions of it simultaneously.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

1 review
Jim Collins

Collins, 2001

Good to Great
Review of: "Good to Great - Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't" By: Jim Collins The book "Good to Great" is a report on the results of a lengthy business research study. Jim Collins and a team of researchers asked the question: "Why do some companies make the leap from being good companies to being great companies, and why not others?" Over the course of the book this ...

Fast Company's Greatest Hits: Ten Years of the Most Innovative Ideas in Business

2 reviews

Portfolio Hardcover, 2006

The pleasure of enjoying their (fast) company once again
This is an anthology of 32 articles which commemorate, indeed celebrate Fast Company's "ten years of the most innovative ideas in business," selected and co-edited by Mark N. Vamos and David Lidsky, the magazine's editor and senior editor, respectively. Obviously, each reader must decide which subjects are of greatest interest to her or him. As a long-time subscriber, I read most of them when ...

Leadership Lessons from West Point (J-B Leader to Leader Institute/PF Drucker Foundation)

2 reviews

Jossey-Bass, 2006

Stalwart leadership essays
"In business, if you make bad decisions, people lose money and perhaps jobs," according to an Army captain who graduated from West Point. "In the military, if you make bad decisions...people can die." In that light, these leadership lessons from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point seem highly credible. After all, most fields of endeavor do not involve life-and-death consequences, but being in ...

West Bank Boogie

1 review
Cyn Collins

Triangle Park Creative, 2006

Nice surprise!
A few people I know up here on the Mesabi Range (in & around Hibbing) insisted I take a good look at this book. So I did and I have to say that those same folks have since been granted "Good Authority" status. "West Bank Boogie" is fascinating, to say the least; some of its characters are household names while others I get to learn about for the first time ... a pleasing mix of the "known" ...

Hesselbein on Leadership (J-B Leader to Leader Institute/PF Drucker Foundation)

7 reviews
Frances Hesselbein

Jossey-Bass, 2002

Class shows
Frances Hesslebein is one of the world's greatest leaders. In fact, Peter Drucker (no "easy grader") said that she was the most effective executive that he had ever met. _Hesselbein on Leadership_ is a compilation of her wonderful essays (largely from the journal "Leader to Leader"). In a world where many leaders have gone for the "quick buck", it is gratifying to hear from someone who is ...

The Startup Garden: How Growing a Business Grows You

16 reviews
Tom Ehrenfeld, Jim Collins

McGraw-Hill Companies, 2001

Start Here
If you are an entrepreneur, want to be an entrepreneur, or want to avoid becoming an entrepeneur who loses more money than they make, this is the book. Tom Ehrenfeld covers all the key topics about financing, selling, marketing, managing, etc. And he does so concisely and with plenty of examples from real businesses, including his favorite ice cream man. Moreover, the book is, unlike many ...

" Good to Great " and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany " Good to Great "
Jim Collins

Random House Business Books, 2006

Basic Homebrewing: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (Stackpole Basics)
Jim Parker

Stackpole Books, 2006

"A full-color introduction to beer brewing, complete with recipes, including: * Paradise Pale Ale * Old Bald Fart Barley Wine * Old Country Lager * Moo-Juice Milk Stout Whether you'd like to start your own brewpub someday or are just looking for an alternative to bland, mass-produced beer, Basic Homebrewing is the perfect way to learn the fundamentals of home fermentation. Illustrated throughout in full color and structured around a ...

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