Jim Collins: Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
An awesome look at the last 50 years and lessons that can be gained by reviewing some companies that lasted and their competition. (*****)
Robert Scoble: Naked Conversations : How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers
A must read for those of us blogging both personally and for business. (*****)
Robert H. Schaffer: Rapid Results! : How 100-Day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Change
Guy Kawasaki: The Art of the Start : The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
A book I first read a while ago and opened again a few months ago as Project X started to expand. (****)
Peter M. Senge: The Fifth Discipline : The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
The origin of the Senge Circle is based on this book. This has always been a very good reference and guideline for business. (*****)
Clayton M. Christensen: The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Destructive Innovation is the key to the survival of incumbents and market entrants. A must read for people who see the world changing around them. (****)
William W. Lewis: The Power of Productivity : Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability
A Book we are currently discussing in the Senge Circle. A very insightful view into productivity of various nations (*****)
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The momentum that the big guys have really makes it difficult to be nimble. Especially if they have been successful and profitable for long time.
Really the challenge is to use your nimbleness to significant advantage. You need to find how to make your idea stick.
Remember the ingenious ad by Avis "We try harder." That was when they were up against Hertz which was so much larger.
Posted by: Jim | December 20, 2006 at 10:45 AM
I think the big guys can do this, but choose not to.
This is a mindset, I find it on the two Rapid Results projects that it is very difficult to think like a squirrel and keep that mentality going. It is very easy to become the bull...
Posted by: Stephen Hayward | December 21, 2006 at 10:54 PM
I expect it is a state of mind rather than size. I think our anxiety takes over and we get scared. If we could only learn that "if we keep doing what we have always done, we get what we always got."
Posted by: Jim | December 22, 2006 at 09:07 AM