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Built to Last
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Best book you’ll read as leader and follower
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Publisher's Summary
Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took 18 truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each 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 the comparison companies and what were the common practices these enduringly great companies followed throughout their history?"
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 21st century and beyond.
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- AJ B.
- 01-15-20
Did not disappoint.
I've always wanted to read this after reading good to great. Finally got around to it and it blew me away.
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- Chris
- 12-15-19
A true classic
This is a true classic and essential reading for anyone working to build a visionary company.
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- Aurelian Cotuna
- 12-13-19
A good book about business
This is a good book, but from time to time I was under the impression that there are some irrelevant information given to fit the time and space.
I think the whole information can be fitted into half the time and actually half the book.
Otherwise interesting and good content for entrepreneurs and business people