How the Mighty Fall. And why some companies never give in. Jim Collins
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How the Mighty Fall. And why some companies never give in Jim Collins. 2009.ISBN 9780977326419. The Good to Great author has done it again He explains that this was a much harder task than finding the commonalities for Good to Great. He has done a good job. He shows there are five stages of decline,
- Hubris born of success.
- Undisciplined pursuit of more
- Denial of risk and peril
- Grasping for salvation
- Capitulation to irrelevance or death
He illustrates how the basics of Good to Great still apply and indicates that many of the fallen (A&P , Zenith, Circuit City, Merck….) were unable to do what the ones who came back ( Nordstrom, Xerox) , which was were they fell away from their basic strategy that helped them to grow in the first place. From our practise we see that companies who fail to work a scenario strategy al a Schwartz (what is the best, worst that can happen and what indicators will show you the trends) are the ones who often make the wrong bets. Check l out last months Wired magazine article on scenarios. It really works. This prevents the search for the silver bullet.
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