New Releases by JIM COLLINS

Most executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. But they install layers of stultifying bureaucracy that prevent them from realizing it. In this article, Jim Collins introduces the catalytic mechanism, a simple yet powerful managerial tool that helps turn lofty aspirations into reality. The crucial link between objectives and results, this tool is a galvanizing, nonbureaucratic way to turn one into the other. But the same catalytic mechanism that works in one organization won’t necessarily work in another. So, to help readers get started, Collins offers some general principles that support the process of building one effectively. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

A once-hidden mystery has now been revealed-THE SECRET TO ABUNDANT LIVING! The amazing key is entering a relationship with the Creator of all things-THEN EXPRESSING HIS DIVINE NATURE! In an easy-to-read, conversational style, author and motivational speaker Jim Collins helps you to discover this transformational truth, and then, more importantly, to put it into practice. Your life will be dramatically changed, and in the process-YOU WILL BECOME A CATALYST TO BRING CHANGE TO THIS WORLD! T! * Find keys to success in family, friendships, finances, and your spiritual calling! * Achieve optimum prosperity both materially and spiritually! * Love God more deeply and love others more freely! * Blossom with fruitfulness, purpose, success, and abundance! * Experience wholeness in body, mind, soul, and spirit!

لماذا لا يوجد لدينا أفضل الشركات؟ لأن شركاتنا جيدة وحسب. الكاتب جيم كولينز في هذا الكتاب يعتبر أن عكس الأفضل هو الجيد, يعتبر الكتاب حصيلة خمس سنوات من البحث من قبل الكاتب وفريق عمله لمقارنة سبب نجاح الشركات في المجالات المختلفة وسبب محافظتها على هذا النجاح. على سبيل المثال أحد الحالات المدروسة في الكتاب شركة والغرين التي كانت معروفة لفترة طويلة من الزمن بأنها شركة جيدة, ولكن في عام 1975 حدثت قفزة في هذه الشركة وبدأت أسهمها ترتفع وترتفع, ومن عام 1975 وحتى عام 2000 فإنك كل دولار واحد استثمر في شركة والغرين تفوق على الـ 1 دولار الذي استثمر في شركات إنتل بمرتين تقريباً, وعلى شركة جنرال إلكتريك بخمسة مرات, وعلى شركة كوكاكولا بثمانية مرات, وعلى متوسط نمو السوق بخمس عشرة مرة. كيف حققت شركة والغرين القفزة؟ ولماذا لم تحقق شركات أخرى تعمل في نفس المجال وبنفس الموارد والفرص هذه القفزة؟ هذا ما يدور حوله الكتاب. يعتبر الكتاب من أفضل الكتب مبيعاً حسب تصنيف نيويورك تايمز ومع أنه صدر من عام 2001 إلا أنه ما زال مرجعاً في مجال الإدارة وتطوير الشركات. تصنيف الكتاب في موقع أمازون: #1 in Company Profiles #1 in Strategic Planning#2 in Systems & Planning رابط الكتاب في موقع أمازون: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0066620996

Leadership Qualities: Qualities of a Good Leader What is leadership? Many confuse leadership with management. There is a clear distinction between leadership and management. Leaders lead and managers manage. Leaders are innovative and always seek for fresh and efficient strategies for maximizing productivity. Whatever capacity of leadership you may be in, the author shares powerful insights and leadership principles that will maximize your potential and develop the leader within you. Leadership Qualities: Qualities of a Good Leader Tags: leadership qualities, qualities of a good leader, leadership, leaders, what is leadership, leadership skills, leadership qualities, effective leadership, qualities of a leader, leadership characteristics, leadership and management, leader, inspiration, situational leadership, leadership models, define leadership, women in leadership, leadership books, leadership attributes, charismatic leadership, authentic leadership, management, teamwork, leadership skills list, effective leadership skills, great leaders, what makes a great leader, thought leader, inspirational words, words of inspiration, inspiring words, inspirational messages, inspirational sayings, motivational words, business leadership, leadership development, effective leadership skills, change management, strategic leadership, inspire action, trust, communicate, motivation, inspiring people, innovation, creativity, decision making, entrepreneurship, mentoring, making ideas happen, inspiring organizations, inspiring leaders, inspiring action, women in leadership, women''s leadership, leadership styles, leadership advice, on leadership, leadership development, leadership training, leadership skills, good leadership skills, leadership definition, leadership quotes, effective leadership skills, good leadership qualities, situational leadership, leadership books, best leadership books, books on leadership, qualities of a good leader, leader, team leader skills, managerial skills, communication skills, team leadership, leadership traits, visionary leadership, leadership academy, transactional leadership, authentic leadership, educational leadership, adaptive leadership, leadership vs management, time management

Every summer, in ten small towns across Cape Cod, young college baseball players showcase their talents in hopes of making it to the "show." A vicious filter, the league has produced one out of every six major league players, from Nomar Garciaparra and Todd Helton to Jeff Bagwell and Barry Zito.In this brilliantly crafted narrative, Jim Collins chronicles a season in the life of the Chatham A''s, perhaps the most celebrated team in the Cape Cod Baseball League. Set against a seemingly bucolic backdrop--a well-heeled resort town on the bend of the outer Cape -- the story charts the changing fortunes of a handful of players, all of whom battle slumps and self-doubt in an effort to impress major league scouts and make the playoffs. Several players go home with career-threatening injuries; one blue-chip prospect fulfills great expectations while another is dubbed "the biggest disappointment on the Cape." A pitcher hides an arm injury while negotiating a minor league contract; another leaves early to tend to his dying father. And nearly all look to the following year''s major league draft as a barometer of their worth. Far more than a baseball book, The Last Best League is an engrossing story about dreams fulfilled and dreams destroyed, about Cape Cod and the rites of summer, about coming of age in America.

Meet the boys of St Johns, an exclusive private boys boarding school headed by the eccentric Mr Billings. There is surprise sex, welcoming sex, birthday sex, surfer sex, revenge sex, punishment sex, sex for pay, cinema sex, teacher sex, coach sex, prison sex. All the things that should happen at the very best schools. Unsolicited, not offered, testimonials Jim Collins, the king of the world Jon Sawack You''re going to need bigger tissues Rod Martin Frankly mother, I don''t give a damn Bert Tutler I''m going to make Jim an offer he can''t refuse Trev Cline Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make. Doc Clarant I''ll have what he''s having Tom Cruse

In this Summary Jim Collins and his team of researchers used strict benchmarks to identify a group of eleven elite companies that made the leap from good to great and sustained that greatness for at least fifteen years. To Busy to read the whole book ? Then this Summary is for U!

Traditional Chinese edition of GREAT BY CHOICE: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

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 simultaneously.

A leading management consultant outlines seven organizational rules for improving effectiveness and increasing productivity at work and at home.

Beyond Positive Thinking expounds on the Scriptures, making them come alive so they are relatable to those living in the 21st Century. These principles will help readers achieve freedom from fear, anxiety and negative thinking.

The new question Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times. The new study Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins’s prior work by its focus not just on performance, but also on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today. With a team of more than twenty researchers, Collins and Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness—beating their industry indexes by a minimum of ten times over fifteen years—in environments characterized by big forces and rapid shifts that leaders could not predict or control. The research team then contrasted these “10X companies” to a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to achieve greatness in similarly extreme environments. The new findings The study results were full of provocative surprises. Such as: The best leaders were not more risk taking, more visionary, and more creative than the comparisons; they were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid. Innovation by itself turns out not to be the trump card in a chaotic and uncertain world; more important is the ability to scale innovation, to blend creativity with discipline. Following the belief that leading in a “fast world” always requires “fast decisions” and “fast action” is a good way to get killed. The great companies changed less in reaction to a radically changing world than the comparison companies. The authors challenge conventional wisdom with thought-provoking, sticky, and supremely practical concepts. They include: 10Xers; the 20 Mile March; Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs; Leading above the Death Line; Zoom Out, Then Zoom In; and the SMaC Recipe. Finally, in the last chapter, Collins and Hansen present their most provocative and original analysis: defining, quantifying, and studying the role of luck. The great companies and the leaders who built them were not luckier than the comparisons, but they did get a higher Return on Luck. This book is classic Collins: contrarian, data-driven, and uplifting. He and Hansen show convincingly that, even in a chaotic and uncertain world, greatness happens by choice, not chance.

Building upon the concepts introduced in Good to Great, Jim Collins answers the most commonly asked questions raised by his readers in the social sectors. Using information gathered from interviews with over 100 social sector leaders, Jim Collins shows that his "Level 5 Leader" and other good-to-great principles can help social sector organizations make the leap to greatness.

Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: 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 decline: Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death By 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.

Aleh Rumi, an Iranian-American woman, is an unlikely spy. An Oval Office decision pulls her into the world of espionage as she returns to Tehran to oversee her mother''s rehabilitation. Fueled by her longstanding hatred of the repressive Iranian regime and its treatment of women, she steals information about the government''s foreign policy decisions. Aleh underestimates the terrible costs her spying will have on her parents and herself. But the intelligence she sends to the U.S. will reshape the President''s Mideast policies. ..".brings readers into the operational side of the intelligence community, providing a seldom-seen view of the anxiety and action spies and their handlers endure. With this fast-paced, tense and realistic novel, Collins is hitting his stride as a storyteller." -Jason Frye, Teakettle Junction Productions, Inc. "The Walk In presents a conflict anyone would dread facing. Aleh''s desire to serve her adopted country battles with loyalty to her highly-placed family back home in Iran. Jim Collins takes us-with scenic word paintings and a punchy, straightforward style-wondering all the way to the end." -Linda Cross, Cape Fear Fiction Writers ..".an instantly engaging, original, and tautly drawn espionage thriller focused on a young woman torn between Iran, the land of her birth, and the United States, her adopted home. The novel is distinguished by suspense that builds on every page..." -Lee Ewing, writer and former intelligence officer "If you enjoy spy-thrillers, Jim Collins'' second novel has it all." -Linda Thomas, Cape Fear Fiction Writers

El declive se puede detectar. El declive se puede evitar. El declive se puede revertir. Jim Collins es probablemente el académico más reconocido del mundo de la empresa y del management. Trabajó durante cinco años en Empresas que sobresalen que, publicado en 2001, se convirtió rápidamente en un éxito internacional. Los críticos siguen considerándolo el mejor libro de management de la pasada década. Tras el impacto generado por la caída de gigantes como Lehman Brothers o Enron, Collins ha dedicado otro lustro a estudiar qué factores arrastran a las grandes empresas a la ruina. ¿El declive puede ser detectado con la suficiente antelación para corregirlo?, ¿cuán hondo puede caer una compañía para que su recuperación sea inevitable?, ¿cómo se puede corregir una mala situación? En consecuencia, se trata de saber cuáles son los síntomas y las fases de la caída. Sólo siendo capaces de predecirla y detectarla se puede revertir a tiempo. ¿Y cuáles son para Collins esas fases? Fase 1: arrogancia nacida del éxito Fase 2: persecución indisciplinada del crecimiento Fase 3: negación del riesgo y el peligro Fase 4: búsqueda dramática de la salvación Fase 5: capitulación. Ser insignificante o morir Toda organización, no importa lo grande que sea, es vulnerable. No existe ninguna ley que garantice la supervivencia, pero como concluye este trabajo de investigación, algunas empresas logran sobrevivir a las crisis siendo aún más fuertes que antes.

Discusses signs pointing toward the decline of a business, how far the decline can proceed before failure becomes inevitable, and crucial steps companies can take to reverse course.

Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore bookshops, and new technologies such as the Kindle digital reader, literary fiction has been transformed into best-selling, high-concept entertainment. Collins highlights the infrastructural and cultural changes that have given rise to a flourishing reading public at a time when the future of the book has been called into question. Book reading, he claims, has not become obsolete; it has become integrated into popular visual media. Collins explores how digital technologies and the convergence of literary, visual, and consumer cultures have changed what counts as a “literary experience” in phenomena ranging from lush film adaptations such as The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love to the customer communities at Amazon. Central to Collins’s analysis and, he argues, to contemporary literary culture, is the notion that refined taste is now easily acquired; it is just a matter of knowing where to access it and whose advice to trust. Using recent novels, he shows that the redefined literary landscape has affected not just how books are being read, but also what sort of novels are being written for these passionate readers. Collins connects literary bestsellers from The Jane Austen Book Club and Literacy and Longing in L.A. to Saturday and The Line of Beauty, highlighting their depictions of fictional worlds filled with avid readers and their equations of reading with cultivated consumer taste.

Building upon the concepts introduced in Good to Great, Jim Collins answers the most commonly asked questions raised by his readers in the social sectors. Using information gathered from interviews with over 100 social sector leaders, Jim Collins shows that his "Level 5 Leader" and other good-to-great principles can help social sector organizations make the leap to greatness.

The compelling story of a single season in the world''s finest amateur baseball league