<![CDATA[How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In]]>

false <![CDATA[How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1245758833m/6431063.jpg 6431063 2 Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course. Collins' research project--more than four years in duration--uncovered five step-wise stages of decline: Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death By understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom. Great companies can stumble, badly, and recover. Every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do. But, as Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover--in some cases, coming back even stronger--even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4. Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again. 6620527 1 6 2009 How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In total:88|5:20|4:40|3:23|2:4|1:1| 88 338 226 40 5 0 false false Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 23:23:15 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 10:36:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 19:03:25 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 19:08:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 14 21:54:29 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 15:30:10 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 21:54:29 -0700 2009
THE WORLD MAKES SENSE! This and other thoughts flooded my mind after finishing Jim Collins latest literary release. Concise and timely, the information applies to business as well as our personal lives!

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Key: Great orgs. (people) get into trouble more often because they overreach/overextend/overpromise than becaus...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 16:08:46 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 16:13:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 06:43:59 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 06:49:24 -0700 2009
A black cover does not appeal to me.

looking at the table of contents my first reaction was a typical airport bookshop book (a.k.a. abb).

The first pages were time consuming (for some reason I was constantly referring to the w...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 06:14:53 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 18:32:13 -0800 2009
1. Hubris Born of Success
2. Undisciplined Pursuit of More
3. Denial of Risk and Peril
4. Grasping for Salvation
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But he does have the glimmer of an idea which can be ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 07:32:44 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 05:12:04 -0700 2009 The best was some of the fascinating insights Collins has coll...more...]]> 5 0 true false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 06:59:40 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 07:06:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 13:32:05 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 13:35:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 15:28:33 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 15:32:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 19:15:39 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 12:18:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 23:27:44 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 23:29:30 -0700 2009
For those interested in business and the path to destruction for corporations and even small businesses, this book provides some very good insights and cases ...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 05:09:02 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 19:14:00 -0700 2009
Thanks to the library, I am knocking out a tremendous amoun...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6431063