[PDF] No Greatness Without Goodness eBook

Author : Randy Lewis
Publisher : Tyndale House Pub
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1414383649

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The former Walgreens Senior Vice President details how he was inspired by his autistic son to implement a model for hiring disabled employees at the retail chain and holding them to the same standards as people without disabilities.

Author : Jim Collins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,94 MB
Release : 2001-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0066620996

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The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Author : Alex Brown
Publisher : Pathway Book Service
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 2011-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780983213901

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"April 29, 2003 - January 29, 2007; 2006 Kentucky Derby winner."

Author : Iowa. General Assembly. Senate
Publisher :
Page : 1356 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Iowa
ISBN :

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A few volumes include appendices (some separately paged) mainly reports of state officers.

Author : IOWA. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. HOUSE
Publisher :
Page : 1504 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Iowa
ISBN :

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A few volumes include appendices (some separately paged) mainly reports of state officers.

Author : Ron Burgundy
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0385682190

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The autobiography every true American has been waiting for: a shockingly candid and raw confessional from a national treasure. From his humble beginnings in a desolate Iowa coal mining town, his years at Our Lady Queen of Chewbacca High School to his odds-defying climb to the dizzying heights of becoming America’s most trusted and beloved television News Anchor, Ron Burgundy pulls no punches in Let Me Off at the Top! In his very own words Burgundy reveals his most private thoughts, his triumphs and his disappointments. His life reads like an adventure story complete with knock down fights, beautiful women and double-fisted excitement on every page. He has hunted jackalopes with Bobby Kennedy and Peter Lawford, had more than his share of his amorous exploits, and formed the greatest on-air team in the history of televised news. Along the way, he hobnobbed with people you wish you knew and some you honestly wish you didn't -- celebrities, presidents, presidents' wives, celebrities' wives, dogs, and, of course Veronica Corningstone, the love of his life. Walter Cronkite, Barbra Streisand, Katie Couric, the list goes on. Who didn’t Mr. Burgundy, or “Ron” as he is known to his friends, rub elbows with in the course of his colorful and often criminal life? This may well be the most thrilling book ever written, by a man of great physical, moral and spiritual strength and not surprisingly a great literary talent as well. This book deserves a real shot at a Pulitzer Prize. In fact if it doesn’t win one then we will finally have proof that the Pulitzer is rigged. Ron Burgundy has taken the time to write a book. We owe it to him, as honest Americans, to read it.

Author : Iowa State Bar Association
Publisher :
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Bar associations
ISBN :

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List of members in each vol.