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Seattle Then and Now (Then & Now)
Jim Collins
Thunder Bay Press, 2002
A book about a town that literally recreated itself
This is a really interesting coffee table book with great historical photographs. This book illustrates how ambitious the city & urban planners were remaking the difficult hilly terrain often interrupted with water into what is today the Seattle & the "Eastside." I ...
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Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Jim Collins
Harvard Business Review, 2001
Leadership to outperform the market
Jim Collins operates a management research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Together with Jerry I. Porras he wrote the bestseller 'Built to Last' (1994). This article was published in the January 2001 issue of the Harvard Business Review. This article reports on the ...
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Good to Great CD: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
HarperAudio, 2005
A New Way to Look at Growing Your Business
"Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't" by Jim Collins was a real eye opener for me.
In this book, Jim Collins, observes 28 companies over the span of 5 years. Over this period of time 11 of the companies make the leap from "Good to ...
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Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company
James Collins, William C. Lazier
Prentice Hall Press, 1995
A masterpiece!........Planning to become great
I'm not surprised why this book have 5 stars...it deserves 10. This book not only explains which are the key success drivers for an organization to become great, but also lets us know what to do in order to achieve results on each of these drivers. I work in the ...
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras
Collins, 2004
A Classic
"Built to Last" is an enlightening and interesting classic on business strategic management. The authors, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras spent six years in research and compared the practices of 18 visionary companies in the USA to those of a matched set of good, though ...
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Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
Jim Collins
HarperCollins, 2005
Excellent companion addressing not-for-profits' unique needs
Jim Collins is the author of "Good to Great," an influential business and leadership book. In the time since the publication of the book, Collins realized that there exist points of disconnect within the book for leaders of not-for-profit agencies (e.g. churches, ...
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The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream
Jim Collins
Da Capo Press, 2005
Baseball at its purest
Simply a fantastic book. Well-researched, intriguing, personal, etc. Shows why baseball is unique as compared to all other sports. There are so many nuances always to explore. The Central Illinois League, another amateur summer league, is a good example of a smaller ...
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Good To Great And The Social Sectors Unabr CD: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
HarperAudio, 2006
Excellent Follow Up To Good to Great
I found Good To Great very helpful and since I work in a church setting this monograph filled in some of the gaps. I highly recommend this book.
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Leadership Lessons from West Point (J-B Leader to Leader Institute/PF Drucker Foundation)
Jossey-Bass, 2006
Stalwart leadership essays
"In business, if you make bad decisions, people lose money and perhaps jobs," according to an Army captain who graduated from West Point. "In the military, if you make bad decisions...people can die." In that light, these leadership lessons from the U.S. Military ...
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The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment
Michael Ray, Jim Collins
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004
A Life Changing Book--Truly Transformational
I recently read on Google that a thousand books are published every day in the United States. However, in my opinion, there are only a very few that are personally transformational or life changing. My short list of books that changed my thinking or made me sit up ...
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Basic Homebrewing: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (Stackpole Basics)
Jim Parker
Stackpole Books, 2006
"A full-color introduction to beer brewing, complete with recipes, including: * Paradise Pale Ale * Old Bald Fart Barley Wine * Old Country Lager * Moo-Juice Milk Stout Whether you'd like to start your own brewpub someday or are just looking for an alternative to bland, mass-produced beer, Basic Homebrewing is the perfect way to learn the ...
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Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism
Jim Collins
Routledge, 1989
Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to envision that culture in conflicting ways, constructing often contradictory visions of it ...
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West Bank Boogie
Cyn Collins
Triangle Park Creative, 2006
Nice surprise!
A few people I know up here on the Mesabi Range (in & around Hibbing) insisted I take a good look at this book.
So I did and I have to say that those same folks have since been granted "Good Authority" status.
"West Bank Boogie" is fascinating, to say the least; ...
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Managing The Small To Midsized Company: Concept and Cases
James C. Collins, William C. Lazier
Irwin Professional Publishing, 1994
A combination of 29 cases from Stanford and Harvard, and 11 chapters covering managing a small to mid-sized business
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Jim Collins
Collins, 2001
Good to Great
Review of: "Good to Great - Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't"
By: Jim Collins
The book "Good to Great" is a report on the results of a lengthy business research study. Jim Collins and a team of researchers asked the question: "Why do some ...
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