| Title | : | BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0): Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company |
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| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 |
| Publication | : | First published December 1, 2020 |
Beyond Entrepreneurship became a leadership staple, particularly among small and early-stage companies. And while Collins would go on to write a series of famous bestsellers that have sold more than ten million copies worldwide, this lesser-known early work remains the favourite of many of his loyal readers.
Now, with Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, Collins re-shares the timeless insights in Beyond Entrepreneurship alongside new perspectives gleaned after decades of additional research into what makes great companies tick. In Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, you'll learn how to turn your company into the 2.0 version of itself. You'll be challenged to grow your own leadership as your company grows, from 1x to 2x to 5x to 10x. You'll learn Collins's newest reflections on people decisions, insights that extend beyond his seminal "first who" principle about getting the right people on the bus. You'll learn why luck favours the persistent, and what it means to look for "who luck." You'll learn about the origins of the "BHAG" (Big Hairy Audacious Goal), and why even a small business needs a galvanising BHAG to have a complete and inspiring vision.
You'll also unlock what Collins calls "The Map." The Map is a road map that pulls together the key concepts developed from thirty years of research and writing into one integrated framework for building a company that delivers superior results, makes a distinctive impact, and achieves lasting endurance.
Finally, you'll learn the lessons that Jim Collins himself learned from the most influential mentor in his life, Bill Lazier.
Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0 is the ambitious upgrade to a classic. In Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, you'll discover that the goal to turn your business into an enduring great company is as relevant - and as within your reach - as ever.
BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0): Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company Reviews
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Jim Collins delivers a great book again. It's a great book for entrepreneurs. Also, this book is unique among his works in that is includes a summary of all his other books--that section alone is worth the entire book.
Highly recommended for leaders of organizations, not just business leaders. -
I enjoyed this book, it was recommended reading at Trek. You can definitely see a lot of the guidance in this book was embraced by Trek's corporate culture, and I that's a good thing. Why did I give it only 3 stars? I guess it was a little dry or I wasn't as in the mood for this type of book. The real-life examples were often fun to hear about. I just felt a lot more drawn into a book like Infinite Game where as BE 2.0 I was not as excited to pick it up each time.
Also it is the type of book that is probably not as great as an audio book because you want to have it in your hands and taking notes and highlighting stuff to remember or study. As an audio book you are kind of just nodding along thinking these are great points, but then when asked to summarize your takeaways you will likely be at a loss. -
Jim Collins, researcher and professor of Stanford Graduate School of Business, and also an author of a series of books that have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, returns to his initial focus on small, entrepreneurial businesses with this ambitious update BE 2.0. According to Forbes, Jim Collins is now one of the 100 Greatest Living Business Minds.
BE 2.0 is a tremendous upgrade to the classic Beyond Entrepreneurship and was born to honor Jim’s coach Bill Lazier who was his professor and his life’s greatest mentor. It incorporates Bill's practical advice as well as the entrepreneurship and small company skills they taught at Stanford.
Along with his other #1 bestsellers “Good to Great”, which examines why some companies succeed while others fail and the timeless classic “Built to Last”, investigating why some businesses remain visionary for generations; Jim’s “BE 2.0” acts as an ideal roadmap for executives in small and mid-sized businesses who want to build long-lasting great organizations.
As a foundation of so many business theories of the past 20-30 years, this is a must read and re-read book for those who want to create enduring companies or have a humongous responsibility to save the company from an ultimate disaster. The real-life examples made this book so much practical along with the knowledge and original insight to be gained. I would highly recommend this inspiring work to any entrepreneur or business owner to consider it as a roadmap for good practices and come back to it again, as there are so many important guidance and recommendations during each stage of company’s growth.
“Get the right people on the bus then figure out where to drive.”
“Take our 20 best people away and I will tell you that Microsoft would become an unimportant company”. - Bill Gates
“Life is too short not to enjoy what you are doing. If we can’t make this fun, we should stop doing it!” - Bill Lazier -
“Launching a startup is like winning the War of Independence, but building a company that can last is like writing the Constitution”
The phrase above is from the book.
I finished BE 2.0 and all works from Jim Collins and his partners. This one completes all the missing gaps left. That was amazing reading. It made me anxious in way that sometimes I couldn’t move to next page, sometimes.
The only minor inconsistent I found, It was about the details. There is so much emphasis about pursuing execution and have attention to details and somehow they also discuss not be too hard on detail. Anyway… details needed. -
Trust & respect, tactical excellence, people are everything, vision & values come first.
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Feels like a strong summary with all the learnings of Collins other books.
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This was an excellent read, as all of Jim Collins' books have been. However, I have a real problem with the fact that almost every idea that Jim later develops in his supposedly inductive approach to research was already present in the 1992 version of BE. This greatly undermines all those self-proclaimed "discoveries" found in Built to Last, Good to Great, Great by Choice, and How the Mighty Fall. Don't get me wrong, I think there is much truth here and knowledge to be gained by reading these books, but the source of this truth is closer to a humanities approach than the rigorous analysis claimed endlessly in Built to Last and Good to Great. Jim's gift is that he's a great storyteller. He brings well known and well-documented knowledge from strategy courses taught in every university to life through literary analogies, sticky labels, etc. He makes management research entertaining and engaging. That's enough to justify reading all of his work. So, if you're looking for a great read about strategy and organization theory, then this book will be up your alley, but prepare yourself to look past the ridiculous claims of analytical rigor and original insight. Those are a stretch. Collins is a brilliant wholesaler of knowledge, but he's not a manufacturer of it, no matter how emphatic he might proclaim otherwise. Enjoy!
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If you ever read any Jim Collins book, you know what to expect. Consider it another great delivery on the same approach as beyond entrepreneurship from the 90's.
I would advise any entrepreneur, or director of any organization, not to use it as a bible, but at least to consider it as a roadmap for good practices.
Even if you read the original BE from 1992, you'll find that the core message is the same, the rules are the same, but the case studies progressed and some of the concepts were refined.
It's not a light read to do while you're distracted, and it truly broke two records on my side:
-amount of notes taken on a single book
-time to finish a single book
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This is the first significant book that was published by Collins in 1995, at that time I had just started my formal education and knew nothing about those concepts. The founders of Netflix, Google and many other Silicon Valley Tech success stories consider this book the enterpreneurship "bible" and as I had not read the original 1995 version I tried to make sense of it from my own perspective. Built to Last and Good to Great are among the very best enterpreneurship books that I've read and I still consider then the best Collins books, all the later books have not managed to make such an impact. I feel that BE 2.0 is a bit a victim of it's original success. When I was thinking back of my own 15+ year career in business then new concepts and operating models implemented back then felt like inventing the wheel and very novel, but cannot be appreciated by today's people the same way because they have been recycled so much in other books and theories and have become so common sense that most people don't even bother to question why things should be done according to those principles or why different approach does not work. Due to this the book still does read as a classic in 2021 but it does not feel "as novel".
Key domains covered in the book:
*Great business ideas don't happen without great people.
*Leadership sets the stage for success - or failure.
*Get laser-focused about your vision.
*You can't control luck, but you can capitalize on it (Great by Choice covers this topic in more depth).
*To achieve success in business, start by cultivating discipline.
*Good strategy is simple.
*You can't innovate without ideas.
*Hard work is the secret to success.
Some more keywords on those topics:
First who, then what
Embracing the genius and confronting the brutal facts
Clarifying a Hedgehog Concept (fox VS hedgehog)
Build momentum by turning the flywheel
Achieving breakthrough with 20 Mile March discipline)
Renew and extend via Fire Bullets, then Cannonballs
Practice Productive Paranoia
Do more Clock Building, less time telling
Preserve the core, stimulate progress (towards the next BHAG)
Getting a high return on luck
How many of your key seats are filled with the right people - ideally this should be 100%. “What makes for a key seat? Any seat meeting any one of the following three conditions qualifies as key: The person in that seat has the power to make significant people decisions. Failure in the seat could expose the entire enterprise to significant risk or potential catastrophe. Success in the seat would have a significantly outsized impact on the company’s success.”
When to get rid of the "wrong people":
If keeping someone in the role is costing you other employees, it's probably better to replace them. The same is true if your staff constantly cannot work with or under someone.
When someone sees the role as a job, rather than a set of responsibilities.
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I'm a fan of Jim Collins. I've now succeeded in reading all of his books, and over the years, his insight has played an outsize role in how I think about leadership, management, and even how I've made my own career decisions. This book is a fitting capstone work that encapsulates the principles he's built out across all of his other books. If there was such a thing as "The Essential Jim Collins" (such as
The Essential Drucker
The Essential Drucker, of whom Collins is both heavily influenced by and a suitable successor), this book is it.
This book is more than just a second edition. It is reorganized, and while the original text remains, a substantial portion of this work is Collin's own notes drawing upon decades of research.
I would roughly summarize the general aims of his books as follows:
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't identifies the hallmarks of a company that can become truly great, and
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All describes how a company can succeed during chaotic times.
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies explores what makes a company enduringly great while
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In describes the opposite: what exactly leads to great companies failing. This book summarizes all of these ideas and digs further into the key choices entrepreneurs need to make to set their company up to become enduringly great. In particular, the section on vision is invaluable and this work provides particularly useful insights into how to be a great leader. While definitely aimed at an early-to-mid stage startup, the principles in this book are timeless and could apply to any organization. Overall, a phenemonally insightful, useful work. -
Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company
by Jim Collins & Bill Lazier
“The American Dream is not just about doing well for yourself: it is even more about the opportunity to do useful work and to freely give of yourself to others. You might give with money. Or with time. Or with service to a cause or country. Or by teaching and mentoring the next generation. Or putting yourself at risk for something you believe in.” - Jim Collins
I’ve recommended Dave Ramsey’s ‘Entreleadership’ as the number one business book for small business owners to read for over a decade. But now, I have a new number one recommendation: ‘Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0.’
Originally published in 1992, this is an updated version published in 2020 by Jim Collins, the co-author of Good to Great and Built to Last, and Bill Lazier, one of Jim’s mentors, who passed away in 2004.
It’s a handbook/guidebook for small business owners, covering everything from leadership to hiring, vision to strategy. This updated version includes the original text plus “Jim’s View from 2020” - new entries by Jim Collins nearly 30 years after writing the original book.
Some key takeaways:
Always start with values
Building a great team
Effective leadership
Vision, Strategy & Tactics
As I enter my 20th year as a small business owner, I admit that I’ve made a lot of mistakes. Some of those mistakes may have been avoided if I would have read this book at the beginning of my entrepreneurial career.
But it’s not too late! From what I’ve heard, and the way that I feel, the next 20 years should be the most productive of my life. And now I have the guidebook to make the most of them.
“Life is just too short not to enjoy what you’re doing. If we can’t make this fun, we should stop doing it!” - Bill Lazier -
I have arrived at this book because of Reed of Netflix's rec: I have no idea if the first chapter to which he mentioned is kept in this second volume, or if it is corrupted.
The text is from a preacher / ideologue of a quite dark sort. Guilt tripping, sacrifice, all that is more disgusting from what philosophies Christianity has gathered in two thousand years, all is here. Like a Sith Lord, Collins is about destroying your self for the sake of a faceless corporation that will puppeteer some employees. It is about government bureaucrats in academia crossing over into the business realm with their messianic cult of power to the Machine, against the individual.
This book makes
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This book main ideas seemed so obvious in many way. All though it's necessary to remind that original book was written in the early 90's, which makes it exceptional and very interesting. Many of the main points were still very relevant to any business nowadays and Jim Collins 2020 views to chapters gave new point of views to the original book.
This is for anyone who is thinking what company needs to thrive, which basically is people, culture, vision and resilience to take those in action.
Book did not shake my world, but included a lot of important lessons to remember and it was good to rehearse these basic principles to mind again. -
Super. Listening 10-20% of this book I got really scared, because I took SO MANY NOTES already and I was almost depressed, questioning myself “Will this book keep on this great content?” I actually hoped not :D And yes, the last 70% was just a good book, not a super good book. Huh, but even so, the collection of good notes I took was crazy. I rarely think of a book I would have to listen again in the future, this is one be one of them. Just pure gold. I have heard a lot about Jim Collins but this was the first book I have read. I am going to have to embrace myself for continuous heavy note-taking and start with his other books also… Wish me luck :)
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There are two kinds of business books - those that are highly technical with raw business concepts and ideas, and those that teach you the very soft skills you need to excel, not only in leading a company, but also yourself as a person. Coming straight from finishing 'The Lean Startup,' I can most certainly say that this is one of the latter types.
Jim Collins is a phenomenal writer. I could tell right from the start that this had the makings of a really good read. I know for sure that I will be picking up the rest of Collins' masterpieces very soon although I think the ideas will more or less be similar to those in this book.
This second edition isn't merely a reprint of the older version but with a fancier cover and a newer publication date. He's taken the time to put together numerous accounts of his experiences in the few decades since the first one was published. Not many books have the preface as the last chapter.
I totally recommend this one. 5/5. -
All Collins books are must read but this one is special. In this book Collins revisits his first book without his first co-author. The book bounces back and forth between the original version of Beyond Entrepreneurship (gray pages) and Jim’s thoughts on the old words with a 2020 lens (white pages).
The reason I love this Book over the other Collins books is that you get the distillation of the most important concepts from every other book. This is a great strategic roadmap for any small business owner. -
This book is a comprehensive guide on leadership for business growth and endurance; the principles discussed are, in my opinion, applicable for both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. BE 2.0 is the updated edition of Beyond Entrepreneurship by Jim Collins and Bill Lazier. The book combines the elements and writing of the original book with the new thoughts and learnings from Jim Collins. The book is a homage to Bill Lazier. This book is a must read for anyone with an entrepreneurial mindset looking to turn businesses into enduring great companies.
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This book is a great addition to any library. The authors, with decades of experience, list out the different, important factors that help a company move from good to great. Starting with leadership skills to vision, strategy, and tactical excellence, and including along the way, a chapter on the criticality of innovation. All of the topics carry a multitude of vivid and real-life examples from companies the author's had researched over the years
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I cannot say enough great things about this book. I first learned about it from a Beene Brown podcast and I see why she raved about Jim Collins. For anyone who manages a team, whether large or small, there is much to be gained from this book. Years of research that are broken down into easily digestible recommendations for achieving success within your team and the company at large. I feel better equipped as a leader having read this book.
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This is not just one of the best books on Entrepreneurship, it’s one of the Nest books I have ever read. The writing style speaks to you and connects with you in more ways than 1. I love that it has so many implementation and execution ideas. You will find making changes to your professional and leadership styles to effect changes in your work life.
This should be a teaching curriculum in all schools and colleges. Brilliant. -
An unquestionably important book that I can truly recommend to anyone who’s trying to understand what makes a company great, how you can contribute to making one, and how you can build one yourself. There’s so much knowledge you can find in every chapter that you can apply right now in your daily life and at work. The author points out the important factors with the right amount of examples and comparisons.
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I learned about this book from Brene Brown's interview with Jim Collins on her podcast. That was a fantastic conversation and as an owner of a small startup, I found this book and Jim Collins insights refreshing and helpful.
Here is a link to the conversation:
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This is the essential final read after reading all the other Jim Collins books. It is excellent and one that you will want to own. The others can be audiobooks or books from the library, but this is a reference text. Own it.
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Crazy to think the original came out in 1992!!! So many of these concepts for companies are just sitting here waiting for be used to enhance customer and employee value; yet some companies still do not understand. The new edition was great as it gave new insights which were helpful
