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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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Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
Jim Collins
HarperCollins, 2005
Taking a non-profit from Good to Great
As a social entrepreneur and current business school student, I was fascinated by Collins' work in Good To Great, and I am thrilled that he has provided this monograph to answer the questions that many of us the social sector have been wrestling with since his 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 Business, 2004
The "Core Values" of Corporate Business of the Yesterday and Today
Let me just say, I have read two books by Jim Collins and his research team and I have not been at all disappointed. All chapters were explained without complex sentence writings and without all the extra stuff. For example, "Resiliency (not perfection) is the ...
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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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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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Mutual Funds for Dummies
Eric Tyson
Wiley, 2004
Making WISE Mutual Fund Investments
We all know every Mutual Fund associate thinks THEIR fund is the best on the market, hence the NEED for a non-partisan book that helps you understand WHAT to look for in a GOOD Mutual Fund. If that sounds like you, I HIGHLY recommend this book. It is TRULY what it says ...
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Jim Collins
Collins Business, 2001
Worth for its price
I don't need much to write here as hundreds of people has written review for this book.
In simple terms the book is easy to read & understand. Analyze how best companies manage to retain their position by innovative & intelligent leadership. Research is sound & ...
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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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High- Making Culture into Popular Entertainment
Wiley-Blackwell, 2002
An exploration by nine key thinkers of the popularization of elite tastes for mass audiences, High-Pop challenges the project of cultural studies to focus on all-but-ignored forms of mainstream culture.
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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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Hesselbein on Leadership (J-B Leader to Leader Institute/PF Drucker Foundation)
Frances Hesselbein
Jossey-Bass, 2002
Class shows
Frances Hesslebein is one of the world's greatest leaders. In fact, Peter Drucker (no "easy grader") said that she was the most effective executive that he had ever met. _Hesselbein on Leadership_ is a compilation of her wonderful essays (largely from the journal ...
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Good to Great
Jim Collins
Harpercollins, 2002
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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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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