Imprint: Random House Business
Published: 01/09/2005
ISBN: 9781844135844
Length: 368 Pages
Dimensions: 240mm x 35mm x 162mm
Weight: 592g
RRP: £25.00
'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.
Imprint: Random House Business
Published: 01/09/2005
ISBN: 9781844135844
Length: 368 Pages
Dimensions: 240mm x 35mm x 162mm
Weight: 592g
RRP: £25.00
A huge inspiration for our business growth strategy over the years.
'One of the most eye-opening business studies since In Search of Excellence.'
'Built to Last is an unusual business book - seriously researched, unconventional in its conclusions...[It] is well worth reading, particularly by those engaged in trying to reinvigorate our nation's largest enterprises.'
'In Built to Last, Collins and Porras present a brilliant and lucid analysis and, yes, a blueprint for organizational excellence. It should be required reading.'