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Was "Built To Last" Built To Last?

It's one of the most influential business books of our era, and it helped turn coauthor Jim Collins into a management rock star. But how well have the companies it lionized and the principles it espoused stood the test of time?READ»

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Hidden Asset

Thomas Davenport has helped midwife some of the biggest trends to have shaped business over the past 25 years--among them, reengineering and knowledge management. Now he's asking: Where do ideas come from? And how do they get traction? Here's his eight-point plan for winning with ideas.READ»

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The Hidden Qualities Of Great Leaders

What are the qualities of truly great leaders? Not the ones you think.READ»

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Create Jobs, Don't Protect Them

Some U.S. jobs are gone forever. Protecting the ones we have left is the wrong response.READ»

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Where Has All the Ambition Gone?

Where has all the ambition gone? There's a growling bear in the marketplace of ideas.READ»

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Who Has the Next Big Idea?

Michael Hammer, consultant, author, evangelical business revolutionary, unleashed reengineering on an unsuspecting public in the early 1990s. Now he's back -- with a new book, a new agenda, and a bunch of new ideas. Be afraid. Be redeemed. Or be both.READ»

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Andrew Cuomo, Turnaround CEO

The HUD secretary is borrowing ideas from business to reinvent one of Washington's most maligned agencies.READ»

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The Fad That Forgot People

One of reengineering's creators explains the iron triangle that turned a modest idea into a destructive fad -- and offers advice on how to avoid the next one.READ»

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Next to Built to Last

There's a great interview in Knowledge@Wharton today with Mark Thompson and Stewart Emery, co-authors of Success Built to Last, which they wrote with Jerry Porras -- who wrote Built to Last with Jim Collins. (Phew! What a tangled web ...READ»