Turning Goals into Results (Harvard Business Review Classics): The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms

by Jim Collins

Overview

Most executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. But they install layers of stultifying bureaucracy that prevent them from realizing it. In this article, Jim Collins introduces the catalytic mechanism, a simple yet powerful managerial tool that helps turn lofty aspirations into reality. The crucial link between objectives and results, this tool is a galvanizing, nonbureaucratic way to turn one into the other. But the same catalytic mechanism that works in one organization won’t necessarily work in another. So, to help readers get started, Collins offers some general principles that support the process of building one effectively.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633692589
Publisher:	Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date:	02/07/2017
Series:	Harvard Business Review Classics
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jim Collins is the bestselling author of “Building Your Company’s Vision” (Harvard Business Review article, September–October 1996) and is author or coauthor of six books that have sold in total more than ten million copies worldwide, including the bestsellers Good to Great, Built to Last, and How the Mighty Fall. Jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. He now operates a management laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, where he conducts research, teaches, and consults with executives from the corporate and social sectors.

Author social media/website info: jimcollins.com

Hometown:

Boulder, Colorado

Date of Birth:

January 25, 1958

Place of Birth:

Aurora, Colorado

Education:

B.S. in mathematical sciences, Stanford University, 1980; M.B.A., Stanford University, 1983

Website:

http://www.jimcollins.com