
Jerry Porras
Organizational Behaviour & Change Expert
Co-author of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, one of Forbes' 20 most influential business books, Jerry Porras debunks myths about what makes visionary companies successful by tracing the attributes of a selected group of visionary companies that demonstrate enduring core values, a purpose beyond profits, and a devoted workforce. The Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change, Emeritus, at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, Porras enlightens audiences with his groundbreaking theories of successful organization.
Jerry Porras, Lane Professor of Organizational Behavior and Change, Emeritus, at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, is co-author of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, one of Forbes' 20 most influential business books.
Thirty years ago Porras co-developed the highly successful MBA class Interpersonal Dynamics, designed to lead students through the process of understanding personal style and improving the way they relate to others. He has an extensive and impressive background including having served on the editorial boards of half a dozen journals and has authored two books and over 40 scholarly articles. He also served Stanford University as the faculty athletic representative to the NCAA and as president of the Pacific-10 Conference Council.
Porras enlightens audiences with his groundbreaking theories of successful organization. He debunks myths about what makes companies successful by tracing the attributes of a selected group of visionary companies that demonstrate enduring core values, a purpose beyond profits, and a devoted workforce.
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Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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August 2007Success Built to Last: Creating a Life that Matters
Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices, and using them to transform your life and work. Authored by three legends in leadership and self-help — including Built to Last co-author Jerry Porras — it challenges conventional wisdom at every step. Success Built to Last draws on face-to-face, unscripted conversations with hundreds of remarkable human beings from around the world. Discover how successful people "harvest" their strengths and their weaknesses, their victories and their surprising failures. Discover how you can find meaning in your life and work just as they did and summon the courage to follow your passions. Above all, see how they've sustained success for decades and you can too.
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November 2004Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each company in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day -- as start-ups, as midsize companies, and as large corporations. Throughout, the authors asked: "What makes the truly exceptional companies different from other companies?"By answering such questions, Collins and Porras go beyond the incessant barrage of management buzzwords and fads of the day to discover timeless qualities that have consistently distinguished out-standing companies. They also provide inspiration to all executives and entrepreneurs by destroying the false but widely accepted idea that only charismatic visionary leaders can build visionary companies.
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