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Title: Great by Choice
Subtitle: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
Author: Jim Collins, Morten T Hansen
Narrator: Jim Collins
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-07-11
Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 72 votes
Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy
Publisher's Summary:
The New Question.
Ten years after the worldwide best seller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another ground-breaking 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 20 researchers, Collins and Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness - beating their industry indexes by a minimum of 10 times over 15 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 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 by chance.
Critic Reviews:
"Jim Collins has built a reputation as something of a myth buster... This book is recommended." (Financial World, Dec 2011)
"Luck is not a strategy the authors conclude. What determines any organizations success is how it prepares for both good and bad luck. They call this getting a positive return on luck and, if Good to Greats four million-plus sales are anything to go by, this idea will be embedded in corporate speak before you know it." (Philip Delves Broughton, author of What They Teach you At Harvard Business School in Management Today
If you want to understand what it takes to run a great company in any circumstances and you admire brilliant analysis and a clear, evocative writing style, then Great By Choice is worth five stars out of five. (James Scouller, People Management)