Books with author CD Collins

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?

I had a plan to survive my senior year. Too bad Jackson High’s star quarterback BLEW. IT. UP.Last year, I was the most hated girl at my old school. This year, my plan is to lay low, keep to myself and graduate.My plan’s working. Until the day I run into Dax DeLeon.It’s impossible to stay invisible when the most popular guy at school claims I’m his girlfriend.Did I mention his ex—the head cheerleader and the most popular girl in school—wants him back?Boom.Now I’ve got a fake boyfriend.And a target on my back. Again.But what’s scaring me the most…If this thing with Dax is fake—why does being with him feel so real?The Nerd & the Quarterback is a sweet YA romantic comedy about a nerdy bowler, a hot quarterback, a possible case of mistaken identity, a bunny-napping, ransom notes, a failed ransom drop, thievery, and mean girls being mean.But mostly about a boy and a girl learning to trust. *Warning: this book has a romance so sweet you'll get an urge to call your dentist.*A laugh-out-loud Romantic Comedy! Grab your copy today!Previously published as Ali & the Too Hot, Up-to-No Good, Very Beastly BoyThe Jackson High Series:#1 The Nerd & the Quarterback (Ali & Dax, A Fake Boyfriend Romance)#2 The Good Girl & the Bad Boy (Lacey & Grady, An Enemies to Lovers Romance)#3 The Tomboy & the Movie Star (Bernie & Kingsly, A Fish Out-of-Water Romance)#4 The Shy Girl & the Jock Next Door (Shay & TJ, A Best Friends to Lovers Romance)

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?

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: Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death By 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 eventually do. But, as Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover—in some cases, coming back even stronger—even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4. Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.

I didn’t mean to destroy the guitar of Jackson High’s Bad Boy. I swear! Sure, I ran it over with my car…It’s true he’s been my enemy since 10th grade…But it was a total accident.The other bad news? That Bad Boy--the one I just pissed off--Yeah... I’m stuck writing our school’s advice column with him.Only he uses my guilt to trick me into doing his work.For three weeks!Until I find out he lied.Oh, heck no. This bad boy has crossed the wrong girl.I call him out on it. In front of the whole school. Check mate, bad boy.“It feels good to be bad,” he whispers. “I refuse to be the Bonnie to your Clyde,” I lie. A few Bad Boy smiles later and I'm the Bonnie to his Clyde. (I know! I know!)We end up in the principal’s office.And I’m breathing into a paper bag, freaking out about the trouble I’m in. But that’s not the worst part.The worst part is… I’m afraid I’m falling for the bad boy.Warning: this book contains a few mild curse words, a couple of *earth shattering* kisses, guitar abuse (if you are against the abuse of musical instruments, maybe skip the end of chapter 3), twin angst, and an "adorably cute" romance between a good girl and a bad boy.A YA Enemies to Lovers Romantic Comedy! Buy your copy today!*Previously published as Where the Wild Boyfriends AreThe Jackson High Series:#1 The Nerd & the Quarterback (Ali & Dax, A Fake Boyfriend Romance)#2 The Good Girl & the Bad Boy (Lacey & Grady, An Enemies to Lovers Romance)#3 The Tomboy & the Movie Star (Bernie & Kingsly, A Fish Out-of-Water Romance)#4 The Shy Girl & the Jock Next Door (Shay & TJ, A Best Friends to Lovers Romance)

This range of Maths and English activity books really helps to boost your child’s progress at every stage of their learning. The series aims to build up important skills through activity-packed fun.Each activity is designed to give your child a real sense of achievement.• Help boost confidence and develop good learning habits for life.• Motivate children to learn at home using colourful activities that make learning fun.• Include helpful tips and answers so that you easily support your child’s learning at home.

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: Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death By 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 eventually do. But, as Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover—in some cases, coming back even stronger—even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4. Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.

Without realizing it we often find ourselves being manipulated psychologically, would you like to know how? Then read on...In this book we're going to deal with a very delicate but extremely fascinating subject:Dark psychology and all the techniques used to control, manipulate, and influence the mind.It may seem strange to you, but in everyday life, we often find ourselves facing situations that could make us feel uncomfortable, inappropriate, inferior, or embarrassed, sometimes without even realizing it. What most people don't realize is that very often, we are unconsciously victims of psychological manipulation, mental control, and persuasion by those around us.People capable of this, take us on an invisible path, guiding us precisely to where they want, in every circumstance and situation (at the workplace, in sentimental relationships, in friendships), aiming to get an advantage over us.Some of these techniques are used by great leaders, employers, politicians, and also by strangers who silently and subtly accompany us on this psychological path, having total control over us and our reactions.Through this reading, we will address:First steps on psychology historyWhat is Dark Psychology?What is "NLP" (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)?The most commonly used persuasion techniquesHow to recognize a manipulatorHow to "read" people and on which physical and character aspects you need to focus your attentionDark psychology in a couple’s relationship What is The Dark Triad?Wrong friendships and how to recognize themThe reading of this book is highly recommended to everyone: both for those who need to know and protect themselves from manipulators, and for those who want to discover and enter the fascinating world of psychology.Scroll to the top of the page and select the buy now button.

This latest edition of the much-loved Bradford's offers even more. Available in a jacketed hardback with a clear text design and quality paper, this edition is durable and easy to use. Users will never again be short of answers to their crossword clues! A unique type of crossword dictionary having been compiled and crafted by a single author based on her over 58 years' experience of crossword solving. Every word in this dictionary has appeared as a solution to a real crossword clue. Previous readers have found this book an invaluable reference work for both cryptic and quick crosswords, and new users will be quickly converted!

This English Revision and Practice range contains clear and accessible explanations of all the GCSE content, with lots of practice opportunities for each topic throughout the book. Based on new research that proves repeated practice is more effective than repeated study, this book is guaranteed to help you achieve the best results. There are clear and concise revision notes for every topic covered in the curriculum, plus seven practice opportunities to ensure the best results.Includes:• quick tests to check understanding• end-of-topic practice questions• topic review questions later in the book• mixed practice questions at the end of the book• free Q&A flashcards to download online• an ebook version of the revision guide• more topic-by-topic practice and a complete exam-style paper in the added workbookSuitable for the new AQA English Language and English Literature GCSE.

Book 3 in the Jackson High Series. When tomboy Bernie Jewell is forced to prove herself There’s only one guy willing to stand up to the class bully with her… The new nerdy guy at school who makes her blush. (Since when did she have a thing for awkward nerds?) Only the new guy at school isn’t exactly the awkward nerd kids think he is…Pre-order your copy of book 3 in this sweet YA romance series! The Jackson High Series:#1 The Nerd & the Quarterback (Ali & Dax, A Fake Boyfriend Romance)#2 The Good Girl & the Bad Boy (Lacey & Grady, An Enemies to Lovers Romance)#3 The Tomboy & the Movie Star (Bernie & Kingsly, A Fish Out-of-Water Romance)#4 The Shy Girl & the Jock Next Door (Shay & TJ, A Best Friends to Lovers Romance)