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

by Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062120991
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/11/2011
Series:	Good to Great , #5
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.32(w) x 9.26(h) x 1.01(d)

About the Author

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. 

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.

Hometown:

Boulder, Colorado

Date of Birth:

January 25, 1958

Place of Birth:

Aurora, Colorado

Education:

B.S. in mathematical sciences, Stanford University, 1980; M.B.A., Stanford University, 1983

Website:

http://www.jimcollins.com

Editorial Reviews

With top-sellers like Good to Great, Great by Choice and Born to Last, Jim Collins has established his credentials as an expert observer intent on understanding what makes great enterprises work. In Great By Choice, he and co-author Morten T. Hansen apply nine years of research to explain why some companies succeed even in the most tumultuous times. Filled with examples and rigorous analysis, this book is refreshingly free of vapid pep talk. Detailed; stimulating; often counterintuitive.

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

“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

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