基业长青 – Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras

《基业长青》打破了旧有神话，提供了新颖的见解，并为那些有志于建立经得起时间考验的伟大公司的企业家提供了实际指导。如何建立一个伟大并长胜不衰的公司？有思想的人们早已经厌倦了“年度流行语“般稍纵即逝的管理概念，他们渴求获得能经受时间考验的管理思想。

柯林斯和波勒斯在斯坦福大学为期6年的研究项目中，选取了18家卓越非凡、长盛不衰的公司作了深入研究，这些公司包括通用电气、3M、默克、沃尔玛、惠普、迪士尼等，它们平均拥有近百年的历史。是什么使这些公司不同于它们的竞争对手呢？它们拥有什么别的公司所不具有的法宝呢？

“This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies.” So write Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in this groundbreaking book that shatters myths, provides new insights, and gives practical guidance to those who would like to build landmark companies that stand the test of time.

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 — they have an average age of nearly one hundred years and have outperformed the general stock market by a factor of fifteen since 1926 — 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?”

What separates General Electric, 3M, Merck, Wal-Mart, Hewlett-Packard, Walt Disney, and Philip Morris from their rivals? How, for example, did Procter & Gamble, which began life substantially behind rival Colgate, eventually prevail as the premier institution in its industry? How was Motorola able to move from a humble battery repair business into integrated circuits and cellular communications, while Zenith never became dominant in anything other than TVs? How did Boeing unseat McDonnell Douglas as the world’s best commercial aircraft company — what did Boeing have that McDonnell Douglas lacked?

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