Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, the author concludes that good to great can and does happen. Here, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations remain only good.

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? This book confronts these questions by showing leaders how they can stave off decline and if they find themselves falling, reverse their course.

Rejecting the belief, common among politicians, that all would be well in society if only the public sector operated more like the private sector, this book sets out a fresh approach to creating successful hospitals, police forces, universities, charities, and other non-profit-making organisations.

The book that defined the field of management: now completely revised and updated for the first time in the three decades since its initial publication.

Teaches leadership techniques and practices from contributors who are teaching or have taught at the US Military Academy at West Point and have served in positions of leadership that span the globe. This book covers a range of topics that are relevant to any leadership development program in any sector. It offers insight into what leadership is.

Frances Hesselbein rose from a volunteer troop leader to become CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA. This book includes her writings on the topic of leadership. It looks at Hesselbein's belief that leadership is about character a question of how to be, not how to do it.

This collection redresses the absence of scholarly attention to the modern day blockbuster, with provocative studies of such major films as Silence of the Lambs, Terminator II and Pretty Woman.

One of the developments in the popular culture of the past has been the popularization of elite tastes for mass audiences. This book is a collection of essays that explores this cultural formation across disciplines and media - from film, television, and interior design/material culture to publishing, music, and museum exhibition.

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? This work offers leaders the hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course.