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Excellence
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras
This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor even 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. What makes the truly exceptional companies different from other companies? The answers lie within Built to Last.
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Coaching Evoking Excellence in Others
James Flaherty
This book is a coaching tool enabling the reader to become a business coach who can self-correct and self-generate your own innovations. It addresses the question: How do I contribute to someone's competence in a respectful, dignified, effective way? Coaches reading this book will build the competence of their clients and help them become self-correcting and self-generating. Coaching is based on the premise we must understand people before we can coach them.
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Jim Collins
Can a good company become a great company and if so, how? In Good to Great, Collins concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time. They finally settled on 11 and discovered common traits that challenged many of the conventional notions of corporate success.
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In Pursuit of Excellence: How to Win in Sport and Life Through Mental Training
Terry Orlick
Whether you are an athlete, coach, or want to become a high achiever in another walk of life, In Pursuit of Excellence provides the expert advice and proven techniques to fulfill your aspirations. You'll learn how to develop a more positive outlook, focus your commitment, overcome obstacles to desired outcomes, and achieve greater personal and professional satisfaction.
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In Search of Excellence : Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
Thomas Peters, Robert H. Waterman
To discover the secrets of the art of management, Peters and Waterman studied more than 43 successful American companies. The companies specialized in a number of areas: consumer goods, high technology, and services. What he discovered was that regardless of how different each company was, they shared eight basic principles of management that anyone can use on their way to success.
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Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations
Thomas A. Stewart
Intellectual Capital is a groundbreaking book, visionary in scope and practical in applications, that offers powerful new ways of looking at what companies do and how to lead them. It is the first book to show how to turn the untapped, unmapped knowledge of an organization into its greatest competitive weapon.
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The Myth of Excellence: Why Great Companies Never Try to Be the Best at Everything
Fred Crawford, Ryan Mathews
Crawford is the managing director of the consumer products, retail, and distribution practice at the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young consultancy. Mathews is a futurist specializing in demographics and lifestyle analysis at FirstMatter, another consulting firm. To research purchasing behavior, they surveyed 5,000 consumers, but the responses they got surprised them. Crawford and Mathews found that values (respect, honesty, trust, dignity) were more important than value.
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