Jim Collins

Morten T. Hansen

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 by chance.

Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

Great by Choice

Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller A Financial Times Business Book of the Month Named by The Washington Post as One of the 11 Leadership Books to Read in 2018 From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Great by Choice comes an authoritative, practical guide to individual performance—based on analysis from an exhaustive, groundbreaking study. Why do some people perform better at work than others? This deceptively simple question continues to confound professionals in all sectors of the workforce. Now, after a unique, five-year study of more than 5,000 managers and employees, Morten Hansen reveals the answers in his “Seven Work Smarter Practices” that can be applied by anyone looking to maximize their time and performance. Each of Hansen’s seven practices is highlighted by inspiring stories from individuals in his comprehensive study. You’ll meet a high school principal who engineered a dramatic turnaround of his failing high school; a rural Indian farmer determined to establish a better way of life for women in his village; and a sushi chef, whose simple preparation has led to his restaurant (tucked away under a Tokyo subway station underpass) being awarded the maximum of three Michelin stars. Hansen also explains how the way Alfred Hitchcock filmed Psycho and the 1911 race to become the first explorer to reach the South Pole both illustrate the use of his seven practices (even before they were identified). Each chapter contains questions and key insights to allow you to assess your own performance and figure out your work strengths, as well as your weaknesses. Once you understand your individual style, there are mini-quizzes, questionnaires, and clear tips to assist you focus on a strategy to become a more productive worker. Extensive, accessible, and friendly, Great at Work will help you achieve more by working less, backed by unprecedented statistical analysis.

How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More

Great at Work

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.

Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

Harvard Business Review

Teresa M. Amabile

Nick Craig

Scott A. Snook

Find your purpose at work. In an ideal world, our work lives would be completely fulfilling and intrinsically motivating. But what if you're stuck in a job and your heart isn't in it anymore? Or what if your company's mission seems unrelated to the work you do day in and day out? This book showcases the power of passion--and how you and your team can find it at work. This volume includes the work of: Morten T. Hansen Teresa M. Amabile Scott A. Snook Nick Craig This collection of articles includes "Finding Meaning at Work, Even When Your Job Is Dull," by Morten Hansen and Dacher Keltner; "What to Do When Your Heart Isn't in Your Work Anymore," by Andy Molinsky; "You Don’t Find Your Purpose--You Build It," by John Coleman; "How to Find Meaning in a Job That Isn't Your True Calling," by Emily Esfahani Smith; "You're Never Done Finding Purpose at Work," by Dan Pontefract; "From Purpose to Impact," by Nick Craig and Scott A. Snook; "Five Questions to Help Your Employees Find Their Inner Purpose," by Kristi Hedges; "How to Make Work More Meaningful for Your Team," by Lewis Garrad and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic; "The Power of Small Wins," by Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer; and "The Founder of TOMS on Reimagining the Company's Mission," by Blake Mycoskie. HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Purpose, Meaning, and Passion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

In Collaboration, author Morten Hansen takes aim at what many leaders inherently know: in today's competitive environment, companywide collaboration is an imperative for successful strategy execution, yet the sought-after synergies are rarely, if ever, realized. In fact, most cross-unit collaborative efforts end up wasting time, money, and resources. How can managers avoid the costly traps of collaboration and instead start getting the results they need? In this book, Hansen shows managers how to get collaboration right through "disciplined collaboration"-- a practical framework and set of tools managers can use to: · Assess when--and when not--to pursue collaboration across units to achieve goals · Identify and overcome the four barriers to collaboration · Get people to buy into the larger picture, even when they own only a small piece of it · Be a "T-Shaped Manager," collaborating across divisions while still working deeply in your own unit · Create networks across the organization that are not large, but nimble and effective Based on the author's long-running research, in-depth case studies, and company interviews, Collaboration delivers practical advice and tools to help your organization collaborate--for real results.

How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results

Collaboration

Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins andhis colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly greatenterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times. This book isclassic Collins: contrarian, data-driven and uplifting.

The Hidden Habits of Top Performers

The Best-Performing CEOs in the World

Herminia Ibarra

หนังสือชุด "คัมภีร์สำหรับผู้บริหาร" เล่มนี้เป็นแหล่งรวมรากฐาน ความรู้ทางด้านการบริหารจากคณาจารย์แห่งมหาวิทยาลัยฮาร์วาร์ดและผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ รวมถึงผู้เชี่ยวชาญที่เพียบพร้อมด้วยประสบการณ์ ในด้านต่าง ๆ ที่ได้ทำการศึกษาวิจัยและกลั่นกรองออกมาเป็นผลงาน วิชาการที่มีเนื้อหาเข้มข้นและลึกซึ้ง จนกลายเป็นวิทยาการที่ผู้บริหาร และผู้นำองค์กรในทุกภาคส่วนล้วนให้การยอมรับ ไม่ว่าจะเป็นภาคธุรกิจ ภาครัฐวิสาหกิจ และภาคการศึกษาขั้นสูง เนื้อหาสาระที่มีคุณค่าในหนังสือชุดนี้มีผู้ติดตามอย่างแพร่หลายไปทั่วโลก เพราะสามารถนำไปใช้ในการพัฒนากรอบความคิดใหม่และแนวทางการบริหารจัดการใหม่ ๆ รวมถึงแนวทางการปฏิบัติที่เป็นเลิศ เพื่อให้เกิดความสามารถในการแข่งขันได้อย่างยั่งยืนในโลกที่ทุกสิ่งผันแปรเปลี่ยนแปลงไปอย่างรวดเร็ว • คุณเป็นผู้นำที่เน้นการรวมพลังความร่วมมือหรือไม่? • ความฉลาดทางสังคมและชีววิถีของผู้นำยุคใหม่ • การประสานความคิดที่หลากหลายเข้าด้วยกัน • การสร้างองค์กรแห่งการประสานความร่วมมือ • การทลายไซโล:ดำเนินงานเพื่อมุ่งเน้นความต้องการของลูกค้าเป็นหลัก • การใช้ประโยชน์จากเครือข่ายแบบไม่เป็นทางการของคนในองค์กร • ทำอย่างไรให้เกิดการประสานความร่วมมือในองค์กร : ยอมรับและบริหารจัดการความขัดแย้งในเชิงรุก • ทำลายความเชื่อที่ผิด ๆ เกี่ยวกับ Enterprise 2.0 • เมื่อการประสานความร่วมมือภายในกลายเป็นพิษภัยต่อองค์กร! • การประสานความร่วมมือแบบใดที่เหมาะกับคุณ?

HBR’s 10 Must Reads: On Collaboration

กลยุทธ์การบริหารความร่วมมือ

Por que são algumas pessoas muito mais eficientes no trabalho do que outras? Depois de um estudo ímpar com mais de 5000 gestores e funcionários de empresas ao longo de 5 anos, Morten Hansen descobriu a resposta e revela Sete Práticas de "Trabalho Inteligente" que podem ser aplicadas por qualquer pessoa. O autor explica como trabalhar melhor em vez de trabalhar mais, recorrendo a algumas acções e direccionando o seu esforço. Inspire-se com exemplos reais de profissionais de vários ramos de actividade que seguiram estas práticas e se tornaram trabalhadores excepcionais. Cada capítulo contém questões e conceitos-chave que lhe permitirão avaliar a sua performance e determinar pontos fortes, bem como fraquezas pessoais. Descubra o seu perfil e a melhor estratégia para se tornar mais produtivo. UM LIVRO INOVADOR. A tese do autor, professor na conceituada universidade de Berkeley, é original e baseada num estudo pioneiro, alargado e credível. Livro de gestão do mês para o Financial Times Um dos "11 livros de Liderança a ler em 2018" segundo o The Washington Post Um dos "17 livros de gestão que toda a gente vai andar a ler em 2018", segundo a Business Week Na lista dos 10 livros de gestão mais aguardados em 2018 da Revista Inc.

Superprofissional

Anne Morriss

Robert Livingston

Frances X. Frei

A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place. We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Frances Frei to Morton T. Hansen and company examples from UPS to Apple, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips. This book will inspire you to: Build trust—the most essential form of capital a leader has Adopt the best practices for hybrid work Navigate the challenges of workplace anxiety Reconsider your approach to innovation by challenging everyday notions of value Assess whether to team up with a rival and how to manage the relationship Break through the organizational barriers that impede gender and racial equity Lead with a commitment to sustainability This collection of articles includes "Begin with Trust," by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss; "Cultural Innovation," by Douglas Holt; "The Rules of Co-opetition," by Adam Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff; "Negotiating Your Next Job," by Hannah Riley Bowles and Bobbi Thomason; "Leading Through Anxiety," by Morra Aarons-Mele; "When Machine Learning Goes Off the Rails," by Boris Babic, I. Glenn Cohen, Theodoros Evgeniou, and Sara Gerke; "Getting Serious About Diversity," by Robin J. Ely and David A. Thomas; "How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace," by Robert Livingston; "Our Work-from-Anywhere Future," by Prithwiraj Raj) Choudhury; "A More Sustainable Supply Chain," by Veronica H. Villena and Dennis A. Gioia; and "How Apple Is Organized for Innovation," by Joel M. Podolny and Morten T. Hansen. HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review

HBR's 10 Must Reads 2022: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article "Begin with Trust" by Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss)

James C. Collins

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Morten T. Hansen

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