Audiobooks narrated by Jim Collins

Brought to you by Penguin. From Jim Collins, the most influential business thinker of our era, comes an ambitious upgrade of his classic, Beyond Entrepreneurship, that includes all-new findings and world-changing insights. What's the roadmap to create a company that not only survives its infancy but thrives, changing the world for decades to come? Nine years before the publication of his epochal bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins and his mentor, Bill Lazier, answered this question in their bestselling book, Beyond Entrepreneurship. Beyond Entrepreneurship left a definitive mark on the business community, influencing the young pioneers who were, at that time, creating the technology revolution that was birthing in Silicon Valley. Decades later, successive generations of entrepreneurs still turn to the strategies outlined in Beyond Entrepreneurship to answer the most pressing business questions. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0 is a new and improved version of the book that Jim Collins and Bill Lazier wrote years ago. In this upgraded edition, Jim Collins honours his mentor, Bill Lazier, who passed away in 2005, and reexamines the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship with his 2020 perspective. The book includes the original text of Beyond Entrepreneurship, as well as four new chapters and fifteen new essays. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0 pulls together the key concepts across Collins' thirty years of research into one integrated framework called The Map. The result is a singular reading experience, which presents a unified vision of company creation that will fascinate not only Jim's millions of dedicated readers worldwide, but also introduce a new generation to his remarkable work. © Jim Collins 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Jim Collins (Author), Jim Collins, Paul Michael (Narrator)

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Good To Great

Brought to you by Penguin. Can a good company become a great one? If so, how? After a five-year research project, Jim Collins concludes that good to great can and does happen. In this book, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organisation to make the leap from good to great while other organisations remain only good. Rigorously supported by evidence, his findings are surprising - at times even shocking - to the modern mind. Good to Great achieves a rare distinction: a management book full of vital ideas that reads as well as a fast-paced novel. It is widely regarded as one of the most important business books ever written. © Jim Collins 2001 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Jim Collins (Author), Jim Collins (Narrator)

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Guided Meditation & hypnosis: 7 books 1: Self-healing techniques, Rapid Weight Loss, Chakras Awakeni

Would you like to fall asleep without anxiety and wake-up the next day without sleepiness and full of energy? Would you like to have a guide to weight loss, reduce anxiety, raise self-esteem and unlock your true power? Don't worry, with this book bundle 7 in 1 all these problems can be fixed. We all live in a hectic world full of appointments and things to do, but it is right to respect ourselves first: external issues create anxiety and disorder in our lives. This audiobook provides guidance for common problems that we all have, such as problems with weight loss, insomnia, excessive anxiety or self-esteem problems. How many times have you encountered problems like this and didn't know how to respond? This book was written to improve your life, feel less stressed and unlock unique abilities through hypnosis and guided meditation. Here's what you can expect from this book: •The best practices and script for meditation to self-esteem, reduce anxiety, clear your mind and stress relief •The easiest way to learn meditation techniques and understand how their work •What hypnosis is and how you can use self-hypnosis to lose weight and Forming new habits for a much healthier diet •Why encourage your child to practice meditation and Bedtime stories to read when your child has trouble sleeping •Understand how the chakra works and evolve, as well as, how to balance and open a chakra Dozens of people have already followed these advices and have noticed great changes, even if you are a beginner to meditation, you can be successful with the simple practices. Our goal is to help you form a better relationship with your mind, your body, your spirituality, and the food that you eat. if you're ready to make changes, then buy this book today and jumpstart your journey towards a better, healthier life!

Lory Patel (Author), Ally Brown, Anna Parker, Anne Marla, Jim Collins, Lukas Savelli, Pamela Mayers (Narrator)

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Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Turning the Flywheel written and read by Jim Collins. *From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller Good to Great* 'No matter what your walk of life, no matter how big or small your enterprise, no matter whether it's for-profit or nonprofit, no matter whether you're CEO or a unit leader, the question stands, How does your flywheel turn?' - JIM COLLINS The key to business success is not a single innovation or one plan. It is the act of turning the flywheel, slowly gaining momentum and eventually reaching a breakthrough. Building upon the flywheel concept introduced in his groundbreaking classic Good to Great, Jim Collins teaches readers how to create their own flywheel, how to accelerate the flywheel's momentum, and how to stay on the flywheel in shifting markets and during times of turbulence. Combining research from his Good to Great labs and case studies from organisations like Amazon, Vanguard, and the Cleveland Clinic which have turned their flywheels with outstanding results, Collins demonstrates that successful organisations can disrupt the world around them - and reach unprecedented success - by employing the flywheel concept.

Jim Collins (Author), Jim Collins (Narrator)

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Timeless Principles: Follow Your Curiosity

'Good is the enemy of Great'. This is how the author sets off a riveting journey explaining the findings from his and his team's half a decade of research in the conquest of how to make good companies great. Essentially, 'Good to Great' happens very rarely and it is because it is damn difficult. In his research, Jim Collins (the author), has found out systematic phases through which any great company goes through and lays out a framework.

Jim, Jim Collins (Author), Collins, Jim Collins (Narrator)

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Seven Questions To Leaders

1-What Cause do you serve with Level 5 Ambition? The essence of leadership is service - service to people/causeAmbition channeled outwards to a cause/something bigger/more important than we areLevel 4 leaders inspire people to follow them but Level 5 leaders inspire people to follow a cause.Infuse your enterprise with some greater purpose - commitment to service is not a sector choice but a life choice.To serve is to live.2-Will you settle for being a good leader or will you grow to become a great leader? Leadership is not personality, position, power.Leadership is the art of getting people to want to do what must be done. - EisenhowerYou need to know what must be doneIts an art.Most great leaders GROW into their leadership - they don't start that way3-How can you reframe failure as Growth in pursuit of a BHAG? "I am not failing, I'm growing..."What is the other side of the coin of success? Its not failure, its growth.Have you ever felt a profound sense of inadequacy? If so - how do you reframe that for growth?4-How can you help others succeed? We succeed and are at our very best when we help others succeed.Three Key thingsService, Success, GrowthIf you could build a culture that has service/cause/purpose that you are willing to sacrifice for and has challenges in the forms of BHAGS that help you grown, and communal success - that is how you build meaning.5-Have you found your Hedgehog - your personal hedgehog? Three circles: Passion, What You Are Made For, Economic EngineWhen you lead out of your hedgehog - you lead out of the wellspring that allows you to persist.6-Will you build your unit - your minibus - into a pocket of greatness? 7-How will you change the lives of others?

Jim Collins (Author), Jim Collins (Narrator)

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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

A handsome, commemorative edition of Peter F. Drucker’s timeless classic work on leadership and management, with a foreword by Jim Collins. What makes an effective executive? For decades, Peter F. Drucker was widely regarded as "the dean of this country’s business and management philosophers" (Wall Street Journal). In this concise and brilliant work, he looks to the most influential position in management—the executive. The measure of the executive, Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results. Drucker identifies five practices essential to business effectiveness that can—and must—be mastered: Managing time; Choosing what to contribute to the organization; Knowing where and how to mobilize strength for best effect; Setting the right priorities; Knitting all of them together with effective decision-making Ranging across the annals of business and government, Drucker demonstrates the distinctive skill of the executive and offers fresh insights into old and seemingly obvious business situations.

Peter F. Drucker (Author), Jim Collins, Tim Andres Pabon (Narrator)

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Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck - Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

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.

Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen (Author), Jim Collins (Narrator)

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Great By Choice

The new question: Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? In Great by Choice, Collins and his colleague, Morten T. 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 on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today. The new findings: The best leaders were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid. 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. 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.

Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen (Author), Jim Collins (Narrator)

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Other's Don't

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 very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? Are there those that convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? If so, what are the distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? Over five years, Jim Collins and his research team have analyzed the histories of 28 companies, discovering why some companies make the leap and others don't. The findings include: * Level 5 Leadership: A surprising style, required for greatness. * The Hedgehog Concept: Finding your three circles, to transcend the curse of competence. * A Culture of Discipline: The alchemy of great results. * Technology Accelerators: How good-to-great companies think differently about technology. * The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Why those who do frequent restructuring fail to make the leap.

Jim Collins (Author), Jim Collins (Narrator)

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How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In

Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course. Collins' research project-more than four years in duration-uncovered five step-wise stages of decline: Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death By understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom. Great companies can stumble, badly, and recover. Every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do. But, as Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover-in some cases, coming back even stronger-even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4. Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.

Jim Collins (Author), Jim Collins (Narrator)

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How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In

"Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.", Jim Collins Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amid the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course. By understanding the stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom. As Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover, in some cases, coming back even stronger. As long as you never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.

Jim Collins (Author), Jim Collins (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Jim Collins