Built to Last : Succesful Habits of Visionary Leaders

James Collins - Jerry Porras

This is a book about visionary companies.' Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each company in direct comparison to one of its top competitors.

ISBN 9781844135844 / Random House / 2005 / 3de editie / 342p. / pb /

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    This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial.

    This is a book about visionary companies.

    ' Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each company in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day - as start-ups, as midsize companies and as large corporations.

    Throughout, the authors asked: 'What makes the truly exceptional companies different from other companies?' Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels,

    Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond.

    Table of Contents :

    Acknowledgements

    Preface to the tenth anniversary edition

    Preface to the first edition

    Introduction

    1. The best of the best

    2. Clock building, not time telling Interlude: No "tyranny of the OR"

    3. More than profits

    4. Preserve the core/stimulate progress

    5. Big hairy audacious goals

    6. Cult-like cultures

    7. Try a lot of stuff and keep what works

    8. Home-grown management

    9. Good enough never is

    10. The end of the beginning

    11. Building the vision

    Epilogue: Frequently asked questions

    Appendix A: Research issues

    Appendix B: Founding roots of visionary companies and comparison companies

    Appendix C: Tables

    Appendix D: Chapter notes

    Index