Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t
The Challenge
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.
But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
The Study
For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?
The Standards
Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world’s greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck.
The Comparisons
The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good?
Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness — why some companies make the leap and others don’t.
The Findings
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include:
- Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness.
- The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence.
- A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology.
- The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap.
“Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, “fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.”
Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?
The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
The world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transition
Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps made during the crucial first three months in a new role can jeopardize or even derail your success.
In this updated and expanded version of the international bestseller The First 90 Days, Michael D. Watkins offers proven strategies for conquering the challenges of transitionsno matter where you are in your career. Watkins, a noted expert on leadership transitions and adviser to senior leaders in all types of organizations, also addresses today’s increasingly demanding professional landscape, where managers face not only more frequent transitions but also steeper expectations once they step into their new jobs.
By walking you through every aspect of the transition scenario, Watkins identifies the most common pitfalls new leaders encounter and provides the tools and strategies you need to avoid them. You’ll learn how to secure critical early wins, an important first step in establishing yourself in your new role. Each chapter also includes checklists, practical tools, and self-assessments to help you assimilate key lessons and apply them to your own situation.
Whether you’re starting a new job, being promoted from within, embarking on an overseas assignment, or being tapped as CEO, how you manage your transition will determine whether you succeed or fail. Use this book as your trusted guide.
The Power of the Other: The startling effect other people have on you, from the boardroom to the bedroom and beyond-and what to do about it
An expert on the psychology of leadership and the bestselling author of Integrity, Necessary Endings, and Boundaries For Leaders identifies the critical ingredient for personal and professional wellbeing.
Most leadership coaching focuses on helping leaders build their skills and knowledge and close performance gaps. These are necessary, but not sufficient. Using evidence from neuroscience and his work with leaders, Dr. Henry Cloud shows that the best performers draw on another vital resource: personal and professional relationships that fuel growth and help them surpass current limits.
Popular wisdom suggests that we should not allow others to have power over us, but the reality is that they do, for better or for worse. Consider the boss who diminishes you through cutting remarks versus one who challenges you to get better. Or the colleague who always seeks the limelight versus the one who gives you the confidence to finish a difficult project. Or the spouse who is honest and supportive versus the one who resents your success. No matter how talented, intelligent, or experienced, the greatest leaders share one commonality: the power of the others in their lives.
Combining engaging case studies, persuasive findings from cutting-edge brain research, and examples from his consulting practice, Dr. Cloud argues that whether you’re a Navy SEAL or a corporate executive, outstanding performance depends on having the right kind of connections to fuel personal growth and minimize toxic associations and their effects. Presenting a dynamic model of the impact these different kinds of connections produce, Dr. Cloud shows readers how to get more from themselves by drawing on the strength and expertise of others. You don’t have a choice whether or not others have power in your life, but you can choose what kinds of relationships you want.
A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service
Having led change successfully at three sprawling, monumental organizations—the CIA, Texas A&M University, and the Department of Defense—Robert M. Gates offers the ultimate insider’s look at how leaders can transform large organizations and companies. For many Americans, bureaucracy and corporate structure are code words for inertia. Gates knows that it doesn’t have to be that way. With stunning clarity, he shares how simple plans, faithfully executed, can cut through the mire of bureaucracy to reform organizational culture. And he shows that great leaders listen and respond to their teams and embrace the power of compromise. Using the full weight of his wisdom, candor, and devotion to duty, he empowers leaders at any level to effectively implement his leadership strategies.
Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know
Unleash your leadership potential.
No matter who you are, you can lead―and lead well.
That is the message New York Times bestselling author John C. Maxwell gives in this power-packed guidebook: Leadership 101. Here the consummate leader offers a succinct and inspiring framework for enhancing the leadership abilities you already possess. Learn how to:
- Follow your vision and bring others with you
- Produce a lasting legacy
- Grow the loyalty of your followers
- Make continual investments in the quality of your leadership
- Increase your ability to influence others
- Determine your leadership “lid”
- Empower others through mentoring
- Create a foundation of trust
- Use self-discipline to improve your character―and your results
One of the keys to successful leadership is applying the concepts that have made other leaders strong. Here’s your opportunity to do just that.
The 30-Minute Stock Trader: The Stress-Free Trading Strategy for Financial Freedom
By automating your investment strategy, you can achieve financial freedom and work thirty minutes a day.
In The 30-Minute Stock Trader, Laurens will take you through all of the steps to create your own automated stock trading strategy that’s proven and based on historical price action data.
He will also show you how to suit the strategy to your lifestyle. You simply need to follow your computer’s instructions, and you’ll never need to listen to the financial media again.
In this book, you’ll discover:
- Why the classical investment approach most people use is doomed to fail
- Proof that automated trading works
- How to uncover your “trading personality”
- Three proven strategies–with exact numbers, entry and exit rules, and charts and graphs
- The “missing ingredient” to financial freedom
- The secret twelve-ingredient recipe of a profitable, automated trading strategy
With The 30-Minute Stock Trader, you’ll have complete knowledge about how to build your own, personalized trading strategy to achieve financial freedom and live the way you choose.
Countdown to Financial Freedom
“I know and respect Mark Avallone. So it is not surprising that I found his book to be quite well done. It deserves a wide audience.” George Connolly, President and CEO, Securian Financial Services
What Is Your Unique Formula?™
Your financial clock is ticking, and you’re running out of time to pursue your desired retirement. Whether you’re a Millennial, Gen Xer, or Baby Boomer, the bite of bear markets, inflation, taxes, and higher health care costs is making the seconds tick even faster. In his Countdown to Financial Freedom, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner and Forbes contributor, Mark Avallone, offers bold and practical guidance to help you pursue your ideal retirement and financial freedom.
In this refreshing, easy-to-ready book, Avallone presents a decade-by-decade guide for everyone whether you’re just starting out, entering your peak earning years, or about to retire. Regardless of your current financial position, you’ll find Your Unique Formula for determining a clear path to your retirement.
Drawing on stories of people who have overcome financial setbacks, Avallone explains strategies like how to avoid the destructive forces of the 3 D’s—disability, divorce, or death of partner—which can ravage even the most sound financial plan.
In Countdown to Financial Freedom, you will see how an award-winning financial advisor clearly communicates ideas and strategies for people of all ages.
Leadership: The Power of Influential Leadership: Skills Proven to Harness the Power of Other People
Anyone knows that one of the best paying and rewarding jobs in business and in life is to become a Manager or some other leadership role. However, just because you can become a manager does not mean you will succeed as a manager. There are many important skills that go into being a talented and successful manager. Thankfully for you, we have just what you need.
Now available are the most proven strategies ever written down on paper that allows you to harness the power of other people.
The Book, “The Power of Influential Leadership: Skills Proven to Harness the Power of Other People”, will teach you the recommended, mandatory, necessary, and very important skills to becoming a profound leader in anything that you do.
Managers all around the world fail because they do not know exactly what it takes to be a success managing and leading other people
This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to use your influence to maximize the productivity of the people around you.
With the tips in this book, you will be able to build your reputation as an effective leader. You will be able to communicate your message to your followers with authority. You will also be able to build important relationships that will help you do your job better.
This book approaches leadership as a process of dealing with people. With the topics discussed in this book, you will learn how you can maximize engagement from your followers.
You will learn how you can boost their motivation and focus in order to meet short-term and long-term goals. You will be able to push them to work for the goals of the organization without ruining your relationships and burning bridges.
With this book, you will be able to accomplish anything that is put in front of you in your leadership position.
So without further to do, pick up “The Power of Influential Leadership: Skills Proven to Harness the Power of Other People” today and become the best leader that you can imagine.
Financial Freedom in 8 Minutes a Day: How to Attract and Manage All the Money You’ll Ever Need
Two respected psychologists present findings indicating that people’s finances are more dependent on their thoughts and emotions than on their knowledge of economics and offer ways to change beliefs about money to increase wealth. National ad/promo.
Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership
Maxwell also opened the floodgates and invited people from around the world to ask him any leadership question. He answers seventy of them–the best of the best–including . . .
What are the top skills required to lead people through difficult times?
- How do I get started in leadership?
- How do I motivate an unmotivated person?
- How can I succeed working under poor leadership?
- When is the right time for a successful leader to move on to a new position?
- How do you move people into your inner circle?
No matter whether you are a seasoned leader at the top of your game or a newcomer wanting to take the first steps into leadership, this book will change the way you look at questions and improve your leadership life.
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