BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0)
BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0)

Author: Jim Collins

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2020-12-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0399564233

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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. BE 2.0 is a new and improved version of the book that Jim Collins and Bill Lazier wrote years ago. In BE 2.0, Jim Collins honors 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. BE 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.

Beyond Entrepreneurship
Beyond Entrepreneurship

Author: James Charles Collins

Publisher: Business & Professional Division

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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This inspiring and yet eminently practical guide shows entrepreneurs how to steer a company to enduring greatness. Leadership style, vision, corporate strategy, innovation, tactical excellence and other key elements are all explored in depth.

Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0
Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0

Author: Jim Collins

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2020-12-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1473585732

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______________________________ NEARLY THIRTY YEARS AGO, Stanford University faculty members Jim Collins and Bill Lazier showed you how to turn an entrepreneurial business into an enduring great company. Beyond Entrepreneurship became a leadership staple, particularly among small and early-stage companies. And while Collins would go on to write a series of famous bestsellers that have sold more than ten million copies worldwide, this lesser-known early work remains the favourite of many of his loyal readers. Now, with Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, Collins re-shares the timeless insights in Beyond Entrepreneurship alongside new perspectives gleaned after decades of additional research into what makes great companies tick. In Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, you'll learn how to turn your company into the 2.0 version of itself. You'll be challenged to grow your own leadership as your company grows, from 1x to 2x to 5x to 10x. You'll learn Collins's newest reflections on people decisions, insights that extend beyond his seminal "first who" principle about getting the right people on the bus. You'll learn why luck favours the persistent, and what it means to look for "who luck." You'll learn about the origins of the "BHAG" (Big Hairy Audacious Goal), and why even a small business needs a galvanising BHAG to have a complete and inspiring vision. You'll also unlock what Collins calls "The Map." The Map is a road map that pulls together the key concepts developed from thirty years of research and writing into one integrated framework for building a company that delivers superior results, makes a distinctive impact, and achieves lasting endurance. Finally, you'll learn the lessons that Jim Collins himself learned from the most influential mentor in his life, Bill Lazier. Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0 is the ambitious upgrade to a classic. In Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, you'll discover that the goal to turn your business into an enduring great company is as relevant - and as within your reach - as ever.

Beyond Bakelite
Beyond Bakelite

Author: Joris Mercelis

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2020-03-24

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0262357984

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The changing relationships between science and industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illustrated by the career of the “father of plastics.” The Belgian-born American chemist, inventor, and entrepreneur Leo Baekeland (1863–1944) is best known for his invention of the first synthetic plastic—his near-namesake Bakelite—which had applications ranging from electrical insulators to Art Deco jewelry. Toward the end of his career, Baekeland was called the “father of plastics”—given credit for the establishment of a sector to which many other researchers, inventors, and firms inside and outside the United States had also made significant contributions. In Beyond Bakelite, Joris Mercelis examines Baekeland's career, using it as a lens through which to view the changing relationships between science and industry on both sides of the Atlantic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He gives special attention to the intellectual property strategies and scientific entrepreneurship of the period, making clear their relevance to contemporary concerns. Mercelis describes the growth of what he terms the “science-industry nexus” and the developing interdependence of science and industry. After examining Baekeland's emergence as a pragmatic innovator and leader in scientific circles, Mercelis analyzes Baekeland's international and domestic IP strategies and his efforts to reform the US patent system; his dual roles as scientist and industrialist; the importance of theoretical knowledge to the science-industry nexus; and the American Bakelite companies' research and development practices, technically oriented sales approach, and remuneration schemes. Mercelis argues that the expansion and transformation of the science-industry nexus shaped the careers and legacies of Baekeland and many of his contemporaries.

Good to Great
Good to Great

Author: Jim Collins

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2001-10-16

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0066620996

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The Challenge 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 verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Beyond Collisions
Beyond Collisions

Author: Maria Meyers

Publisher:

Published: 2017-12-19

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780692999899

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In communities across America, people are trying to support entrepreneurs. They know entrepreneurs add jobs, character and vitality to a community's economy. Beyond Collisions gets behind the meetups, the accelerators and the hackathons to provide a guide for how to support entrepreneurs - how to build the entrepreneurial infrastructure.Entrepreneurship is poised to take its place alongside attraction and retention as a key economic development strategy. In traditional economic development, there is a defined process for the attraction and retention of companies. With entrepreneurship, there's been no infrastructure, no roadmap. In most communities, efforts to support entrepreneurs are fragmented. Beyond Collisions provides a clear, proven path to building the entrepreneurial infrastructure that can enable people to start and grow thriving companies. It's not one program, no silver bullet. It's a process, a strategy to identify, connect and empower entrepreneurial support resources, and then measure the results.Maria Meyers, Kate Pope Hodel and the SourceLink team have been working in Kansas City and across the country for 15 years, listening, learning and leading. They join with others, the entrepreneurs of entrepreneurship, to share hard-earned lessons about how to build the kind of inclusive, supportive network that encourages entrepreneurship.Beyond Collisions explores key questions. Section One addresses why should a community support entrepreneurship, what an entrepreneurial infrastructure looks like and who benefits. Section Two provides practical, tactical steps to identify, connect, empower and measure the entrepreneurial infrastructure. Section Three outlines strategies around marketing, funding and leadership.Sprinkled throughout are stories from the field, firsthand accounts of building networks, encouraging entrepreneurs and analyzing outcomes.

Beyond Business
Beyond Business

Author: Lonnie Gienger

Publisher: Business Advantage

Published: 2018-11-18

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781732852808

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As a business leader, you are in the perfect role to change the world. That's not motivational hype. Your business is your ideal platform to build a better world. Many people assume charities, churches, and non-profits are responsible for meeting the needs of the world--but they can only do so much. But what if you could build a more successful company to build a more successful society? What if your business could drive significant changes in society? This book will show you: How smart business processes can create time and resources you can use to make a bigger impact on your world How your company can excel at meeting critical needs, developing your team, and addressing challenges in society How you can find the guidance and resources to be a world-changing business leader Transform your company into a more effective platform to build a better world.

Beyond Silicon Valley
Beyond Silicon Valley

Author: Michael Goldberg

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-21

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780999835203

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In Beyond Silicon Valley: How One Online Course Helped Support Global Entrepreneurs, Professor Michael Goldberg takes readers on a global entrepreneurial adventure. He tells the stories of students who took his groundbreaking and hugely popular Beyond Silicon Valley massive open online course (MOOC), the most translated in Coursera history. To date, over 135,000 people have registered for Beyond Silicon Valley, and in this book, readers will meet nearly 20 students who started and grew their businesses, mentored other entrepreneurs, became innovation consultants, grew their entrepreneurial advocacy organizations, and more. These entrepreneurs live and work in transitioning economies throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Goldberg also poignantly connects these startup struggles and successes to his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, a region that is making a transition of its own. Join Goldberg as he inspires--and finds inspiration from--innovators and entrepreneurial supporters everywhere.

BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0)
BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0)

Author: Jim Collins

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-12-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0399564233

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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. BE 2.0 is a new and improved version of the book that Jim Collins and Bill Lazier wrote years ago. In BE 2.0, Jim Collins honors 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. BE 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.

GRASPED Beyond Business
GRASPED Beyond Business

Author: Steven Brough

Publisher: GRASPED Digital

Published: 2024-02-29

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13:

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"GRASPED Beyond Business" presents a transformative guide for those seeking to intertwine personal growth with professional development. It offers 20 innovative strategies, such as Blue Sky Thinking, Value-Added Services, and Sustainable Business Practices, designed to enhance both personal well-being and business acumen. The book serves as a comprehensive manual for achieving excellence in a world where personal and professional boundaries are increasingly blurred. This book's USP lies in its holistic approach, seamlessly integrating personal development strategies with innovative business tactics. Unlike other guides that focus solely on either professional success or personal growth, "GRASPED Beyond Business" bridges the gap, providing a balanced roadmap for thriving in both realms. Embark on a journey of innovation and growth with "GRASPED Beyond Business." This guide is your companion through the labyrinth of personal and professional development, offering fresh perspectives on achieving success and fulfillment in today's interconnected world.