The Breakthrough Company
By: Keith R. McFarland Think of this book as a sort of companion reading to Jim Collins' Good to Great. Author Keith McFarland set out to write a book that was not just about huge companies and their successes but rather about mid-size companies that took the steps necessary to explode their profits and hit the big time. As such, it is probably relevant to a greater number of companies than the books and articles with companies like IBM as the ...continue
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
By: Jim Collins This book takes a thoroughly researched look into what causes companies that were once great to collapse. The author of a corollary work entitled Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t, Collins outlines the five stages that typically mark the decline of once-great companies: 1. Hubris Born of Success 2. Undisciplined Pursuit of More 3. Denial of Risk and Peril 4. Grasping for Salvation 5. ...continue
