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

by Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen Narrated by Jim Collins

Overview

The new question: Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? In Great by Choice, Collins and his colleague, Morten T. 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 on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today.

The new findings:

• The best leaders were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid.
• Following the belief that leading in a "fast world" always requires "fast decisions" and "fast action" is a good way to get killed.
• The great companies changed less in reaction to a radically changing world than the comparison companies.

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.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

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

Financial Times

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

Wall Street Journal

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.

Booklist

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

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

Wall Street Journal

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.

Financial Times

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

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170066032
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/11/2011
Edition description:	Unabridged

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