Books First Ltd How The Mighty Fall

"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- tage 1- Hubris Born of Success tage 2- Undisciplined Pursuit of More tage 3- Denial of Risk and Peril tage 4- Grasping for Salvation tage 5- Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death y 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 even