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It is widely regarded as one of the most important business books ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56296112324981,"sku":"9780712676090","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780712676090_a2c4f12a-1b2e-4893-8184-eda43cfcf7d3.jpg?v=1786015120"},{"product_id":"9781847940889","title":"Great by Choice","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE NEW QUESTION\u003cbr\u003eTen years after the worldwide bestseller \u003ci\u003eGood to Great\u003c\/i\u003e, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NEW STUDY \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreat\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eby Choice\u003c\/i\u003e 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 twenty researchers, Collins and Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness - beating their industry indexes by a minimum of ten times over fifteen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NEW FINDINGS\u003cbr\u003eThe study results were full of provocative surprises. Such as: \u003cbr\u003e* The best leaders were not more risk taking, more visionary, and more creative than the comparisons; they were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid.\u003cbr\u003e* Innovation by itself turns out not to be the trump card in a chaotic and uncertain world; more important is the ability to scale innovation, to blend creativity with discipline.\u003cbr\u003e* Following the belief that leading in a \"fast world\" always requires \"fast decisions\" and \"fast action\" is a good way to get killed.\u003cbr\u003e* The great companies changed less in reaction to a radically changing world than the comparison companies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe authors challenge conventional wisdom with thought-provoking, sticky, and supremely practical concepts. They include \u003cb\u003e10Xers\u003c\/b\u003e; the \u003cb\u003e20 Mile March\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eFire Bullets then Cannonballs\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eLeading above the Death Line\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eZ\u003ci\u003eoom Out,\u003c\/i\u003e Then \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eZoom In\u003c\/b\u003e;\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003cb\u003eSMaC Recipe\u003c\/b\u003e. 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 \u003cb\u003eReturn on Luck\u003c\/b\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307928236405,"sku":"9781847940889","price":26.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781847940889_9cc3c2b3-1b3f-4951-962c-fafbb157af4f.jpg?v=1786029235"},{"product_id":"9781847943347","title":"Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE BOOK THAT REED HASTINGS AT NETFLIX TOLD EVERY ASPIRING CEO TO READ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly thirty years ago, Stanford University faculty members Jim Collins and Bill Lazier showed you how to turn an entrepreneurial business into an enduring great company.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Entrepreneurship\u003c\/i\u003e became a leadership staple, particularly among small and early-stage companies. And while Collins would go on to write a series of famous bestsellers that have sold more than ten million copies worldwide, this lesser-known early work remains the favourite of many of his loyal readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, with \u003ci\u003eBeyond Entrepreneurship 2.0\u003c\/i\u003e, Collins re-shares the timeless insights in \u003ci\u003eBeyond Entrepreneurship\u003c\/i\u003e alongside new perspectives gleaned after decades of additional research into what makes great companies tick. In \u003ci\u003eBeyond Entrepreneurship 2.0\u003c\/i\u003e, you'll learn how to turn your company into the 2.0 version of itself. You'll be challenged to grow your own leadership as your company grows, from 1x to 2x to 5x to 10x. You'll learn Collins's newest reflections on people decisions, insights that extend beyond his seminal \"first who\" principle about getting the right people on the bus. You'll learn why luck favours the persistent, and what it means to look for \"who luck.\" You'll learn about the origins of the \"BHAG\" (Big Hairy Audacious Goal), and why even a small business needs a galvanising BHAG to have a complete and inspiring vision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou'll also unlock what Collins calls \"The Map.\" The Map is a road map that pulls together the key concepts developed from thirty years of research and writing into one integrated framework for building a company that delivers superior results, makes a distinctive impact, and achieves lasting endurance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally, you'll learn the lessons that Jim Collins himself learned from the most influential mentor in his life, Bill Lazier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Entrepreneurship 2.0\u003c\/i\u003e is the ambitious upgrade to a classic. 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Rejecting the belief, common among politicians, that all would be well in society if only the public sector operated more like the private sector, he sets out a radically new approach to creating successful hospitals, police forces, universities, charities, and other non-profit-making organisations. In the process he rejects many deep-rooted assumptions: that somehow it's possible to measure social bodies in purely financial terms; that they can be managed like traditional businesses; that they can be transformed simply by throwing money at them. Instead he argues for radical new attitudes and strategies, using the analytical approach and clear thinking that lie at the heart of \u003ci\u003eGood to Great. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308816052597,"sku":"9781905211326","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781905211326_071c6717-97ca-4c90-87b2-b790c5987617.jpg?v=1786028986"},{"product_id":"9781633692589","title":"Turning Goals into Results","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. But they install layers of stultifying bureaucracy that prevent them from realizing it. In this article, Jim Collins introduces the \u003ci\u003ecatalytic mechanism\u003c\/i\u003e, a simple yet powerful managerial tool that helps turn lofty aspirations into reality. The crucial link between objectives and results, this tool is a galvanizing, nonbureaucratic way to turn one into the other. But the same catalytic mechanism that works in one organization won’t necessarily work in another. So, to help readers get started, Collins offers some general principles that support the process of building one effectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 1922, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Business Review\u003c\/i\u003e has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The \u003ci\u003eHarvard Business Review\u003c\/i\u003e Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. 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How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHow the Mighty Fall\u003c\/i\u003e, 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: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStage 1: Hubris Born of Success\u003cbr\u003eStage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More\u003cbr\u003eStage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril\u003cbr\u003eStage 4: Grasping for Salvation\u003cbr\u003eStage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreat companies can stumble, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ebadly, and recover.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery 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 \u003ci\u003eafter \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehaving crashed into the depths of Stage 4\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecline, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313064391029,"sku":"9781847940421","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781847940421_a28629b3-08f1-4bd0-8d11-c4075e7796b5.jpg?v=1786029228"},{"product_id":"9781529979756","title":"What to Make of a Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eJim Collins, international bestselling author of Good to Great, offers transformative lessons on constructing — and reconstructing — a life through the cliff moments and transitions we all will face repeatedly in our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE QUESTION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat to make of a life? It is a question we all wrestle with more than once. How do we find our way in the world? How do we make it past the cliffs, significant events that can radically change a life? How do we keep the inner fire burning bright, long and late? Inspired by relentless curiosity, Jim Collins devoted a decade to studying these questions and to minutely analysing those moments when life flips from clarity to confusion and casts us into a befuddling fog.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE STUDY His exploration compares various lives side by side, paired together at cliffs, and analyses the different choices made and divergent paths taken. Two rock musicians confronting a future without the group that had brought them success. Two suffragists achieving their epic goal and then left with the puzzle of what to do next. Two public figures tainted by scandal having to make decisions about how to rebuild their lives. Two figure skaters seeking new purpose when their Olympic careers come to an end. What emerges from Collins’s extensive studies — of writers, actors, scientists, leaders, and many others — is a framework for understanding how individual lives can be built, sustained, and constantly renewed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE FINDINGSBy examining the long arc of these remarkable lives, Collins tackles life’s questions. What does it take to:Discover a deeply fulfilling role in life — one that you are naturally 'encoded' for — and then find a second one, if the first one ends? Overcome a major cliff — a fracture point that forces choices about what’s next and calls for you to reenvision the years to come? Make your personal economics work so that you can focus on One Big Thing that feeds your inner fire? Navigate the fog when you feel uncertain or even outright lost, and build confidence step by stepMinimise the impact of bad luck and ensure the maximum return on good luck? 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Written by multimillion-copy bestselling \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eauthor, speaker and business management consultant Jim \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollins and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eorganizational theorist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Jerry Porras, it's the only blueprint you need for sustained business growth.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eBuilt to Last\u003c\/i\u003e is an unusual business book - seriously researched, unconventional in its conclusions... [It] is well worth reading, particularly by those engaged in trying to reinvigorate our nation's largest enterprises.' -- \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Outstanding from Jim Collins as always. 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