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Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

Jim Collins

Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins andhis colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly greatenterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times. This book isclassic Collins: contrarian, data-driven and uplifting.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harper Business
  • Publish Date: Oct 11st, 2011
  • Pages: 320
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.06in - 5.98in - 1.26in - 1.20lb
  • EAN: 9780062120991
  • Categories: Management - GeneralCorporate & Business History - GeneralEntrepreneurship

About the Author

Hansen, Morten T.: -

Morten T. Hansen is a management professor at the University of California, Berkeley (School of Information), and at INSEAD. Formerly a professor at Harvard Business School, Morten holds a PhD from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He is the author of Collaboration and the winner of the Administrative Science Quarterly Award for exceptional contributions to the field of organization studies. Previously a manager with the Boston Consulting Group, Morten consults and gives talks for companies worldwide.

Collins, Jim: -

Jim Collins has published multiple international bestsellers that have sold in total more than ten million copies worldwide, including the perennial favorite Good to Great. His writings and teachings are based on extensive research projects designed to uncover timeless principles of human endeavor and have had a lasting impact across all sectors of society. All of Jim's books share a common thread: the study of people and how they navigate the big questions of leadership and life.

Praise for this book

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

"Collins and Hansen draw some interesting and counterintuitive conclusions from their research....far from a dry work of social science. Mr. Collins has a way with words, not least with metaphor." -- Wall Street Journal

Entrepreneurs and business leaders may find the concepts in this book useful for making choices to increase their odds of building a great company. -- Booklist