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How the Mighty Fall : And Why Some Companies Never Give In

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Learn how companies can avoid decline in 5 stages.

This book is an insightful read for business leaders who want to understand the warning signs of decline in their companies and learn how to reverse its course. Jim Collins offers a comprehensive framework of 5 stages of decline that begins with hubris born of success and ends with capitulation to irrelevance or death. The research project is based on companies that fell from greatness, including Kodak, Circuit City, and Motorola, highlighting their mistakes, and how their leaders could have prevented their demise. Overall, this book provides valuable insights into how to avoid complacency, stay disciplined, understand your risks, and seize new opportunities while there's still time, making it a must-read for anyone in a leadership position.

  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2009)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

How the Mighty Fall : And Why Some Companies Never Give In

Regular price ₱770.40
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ISBN: 9781847940421
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: ₱1,387.35
Authors: James C. Collins
Date of Publication: 2009-06-04
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, Personal Development, Economics
Goodreads rating: 3.96
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Decline can be avoided.Decline can be detected.Decline can be reversed.Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course?In How the Mighty Fall , 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 Stage 1: Hubris Born of SuccessStage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of MoreStage 3: Denial of Risk and PerilStage 4: Grasping for SalvationStage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or DeathBy understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom.Great companies can stumble, badly, and recover.Every 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 after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4 .Decline, 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.
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Learn how companies can avoid decline in 5 stages.

This book is an insightful read for business leaders who want to understand the warning signs of decline in their companies and learn how to reverse its course. Jim Collins offers a comprehensive framework of 5 stages of decline that begins with hubris born of success and ends with capitulation to irrelevance or death. The research project is based on companies that fell from greatness, including Kodak, Circuit City, and Motorola, highlighting their mistakes, and how their leaders could have prevented their demise. Overall, this book provides valuable insights into how to avoid complacency, stay disciplined, understand your risks, and seize new opportunities while there's still time, making it a must-read for anyone in a leadership position.

  • Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2009)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.