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Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck

August 26, 2021 By Jeremy Shapiro

The new question: Ten years after the worldwide best seller 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.

Purchase Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck

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