Book Titles

How the Mighty Fall
And Why Some Companies Never Give In

By Jim Collins

Year Published: 2009
ISBN-13: 978-0977326419
Categories: Enterprises, Failure, Greatness

59 Quotes Found

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How the Mighty Fall:

…effective teaching: don’t try to come up with the right answers; focus on coming up with good questions.

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How the Mighty Fall:

…organizational decline, unlike cancer, is largely self-inflicted.

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How the Mighty Fall:

If companies… once the unquestioned champions in their fields, can plummet from great to irrelevant, then we should be wary about our own success.

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How the Mighty Fall:

There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fail and most eventually do.

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How the Mighty Fall:

…just as great companies can topple, some rise again.

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How the Mighty Fall:

…that’s what makes the process of decline so terrifying; it can sneak up on you, and then – seemingly, all of a sudden – you’re in big trouble.

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How the Mighty Fall:

Great companies can become insulated by success; accumulated momentum can carry and enterprise forward, for a while, even if its leaders make poor decisions or lose discipline.

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How the Mighty Fall:

When an organization grows beyond its ability to fill its key seats with the right people, it has set itself up for a fall.

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How the Mighty Fall:

Although complacency and resistance to change remain dangers to any successful enterprise, overreaching better captures how the mighty fall.

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How the Mighty Fall:

Initial results from taking dramatic action may appear positive, but they do not last.

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