Collins, James <br/><br/>
Built to last: successful habits of visionary companies 

 - London  Random House Business Books  2005 
 - xxvi, 342 p. 
<br/><br/> Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each company in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day - as start-ups, as midsize companies and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: 'What makes the truly exceptional companies different from other companies?'<br/><br/>Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper long into the twenty-first century and beyond. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781844135844 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Success in business<br/>Entrepreneurship<br/>Industrial management<br/>Business enterprises
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658  / COL