The authors claim that two qualities are common to 'visionary' companies: a guiding philosophy and a challenging goal. They have interviewed the leaders and senior managers of 18 world class companies including Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Walt Disney, 3M and Sony, and examined just what makes them tick and how it is they have outstripped their competitors. The book forms a blueprint for success for companies around the world, who can learn valuable secrets of how to succeed in today's climate of change and fierce competition.
Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices, and using them to transform your life and work. Authored by three legends in leadership and self-help — including Built to Last co-author Jerry Porras — it challenges conventional wisdom at every step. Success Built to Last draws on face-to-face, unscripted conversations with hundreds of remarkable human beings from around the world. Meet billionaires, CEOs, presidents of nations, Nobel laureates and celebrities — the rich, the famous and the unknown. Meet unsung heroes who've achieved lasting impact without obvious power or charisma. Famous or not, most started out ordinary. Discover how successful people "harvest" their strengths and their weaknesses, their victories and their surprising failures. Discover how you can find meaning in your life and work just as they did and summon the courage to follow your passions. Above all, see how they've sustained success for decades and you can too.
In this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be “built to change” so they can last and succeed in today’s global economy. Instead of striving to create a highly reliable Swiss watch that consistently produces the same behavior, they argue organizations need to be designed in ways that stimulate and facilitate change. Built to Change focuses on identifying practices and designs that organizations can adopt so that they are able to change. As Lawler and Worley point out, organizations that foster continuous change
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies - 3rd Edition
384 pages
14 hours of reading
James Collins and Jerry Porras have examined eighteen exceptional and long-lasting companies, including General Electric, Boeing, Disney, Hewlett-Packard and Proctor and Gamble, and compared each with one of its closest but less successful competitors, in order to discover just what has given it the edge over its rivals. What they found out about success and management styles can be learnt and applied by the vast majority of managers at all levels. The new final chapter looks at the implications of the internet - Built to Flip.
Jim Collins untersucht, was herausragende Unternehmen von anderen unterscheidet und welche Lehren aus ihrem Erfolg gezogen werden können. Seine Analyse bietet wertvolle Erkenntnisse für Gründer und Unternehmer, die ein Unternehmen aufbauen und nachhaltig führen möchten.
Was haben Bono, der Dalai Lama, Jimmy Carter und der Unternehmer Sir Richard Branson gemeinsam? Jeder von ihnen hat es geschafft, auf seine eigene Weise dauerhaft erfolgreich zu sein. Aber was macht deren Erfolg aus? Das Autoren-Trio Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery und Mark Thompson gibt anhand von anschaulichen Beispielen Antworten auf die Frage, warum erfolgreiche Menschen erfolgreich bleiben, basierend auf Interviews mit mehr als 200 Menschen aus allen Teilen der Welt, die auf ihrem Gebiet, in ihrem Beruf oder in ihrem Bereich herausragend sind oder waren und die wussten, dass ihr Leben eine Bedeutung hat. In mo-natelanger Kleinarbeit wurden dann Parallelen in deren aller Leben gesucht und die Ergebnisse genau unter die Lupe genommen. Was diese Menschen letztendlich inspiriert und antreibt, gegen alle Widerstände anzukämpfen und an ihrem Glauben festzuhalten ist ihre Leidenschaft. Wie man Leidenschaft für eine Sache entwickelt oder bereits entfachte Begeisterung professionalisiert, können alle interessierten Leser von den „Großen“ lernen. Denn der Schlüssel für dauerhaften Erfolg liegt definitiv darin, das zu tun, was man liebt und bei dem man mit Leidenschaft bei der Sache ist.
