James Collins

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  Always A Wedding

  $24.99

  Plan the marriage and not just the wedding!

  “Dr. Collins has the unique gift of guiding couples from planning a ceremony to establishing a happy and lasting marriage. His wisdom and joy did this for us 23 years ago” Hunter and Missy Keith

  “While planning our wedding, Dr. Collins opened our eyes to view marriage as a covenant and not just a legal contract. We have our agreements of ‘Fighting Fair’ framed on our bedroom wall to remind us that love is patient, kind, and keeps no record of wrongs once forgiven.” Billy and Brittany Glynn

  “We just wanted to get married when we met with Dr. Collins in 1988. However, our premarital counseling led us to a closer relationship with Jesus Christ who made our Covenant of Marriage possible. We used our chalice for communion in our wedding to witness Christ as the central person in our lives.” John and Teri McIntyre

  “Our marriage was blessed from the start when the Lord brought us to Dr. Collins. He taught us the ‘Four Goals of Marriage’ which have encouraged us to grow together with our Lord as the third person in our Covenant. We are realizing the true gift and joy of a happy marriage.” Dan and Denise Flynn

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  Good To Great

  $35.00

  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.
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