Built To Last Book Report

Companies & Businesses without a vision are like a human looking into despair. Centering their focus on achieving their goals is priority for most companies. Evaluating the business from different standpoints can be crucial. Businesses are evualted on external and internal basis to indenfiy any outlying factors. More so internal factors are those that are dealt within the company. Being able to identify strengths and weakness within the company help leaders plan for unforeseen circumstances. Majority of internal factors particularly weakness if not taken into analysis disrupts the business not only internally but externally. Being able to distinguish the strength and weakness in the company can prepare the business for new venture and new

Collins and Porras (1996) states that when organizations provide a vision for its management and employees as a whole, its vision should provide guidance about what core to preserve and what progress to be made in the future (p. 78). Nonetheless, when understanding the purpose of organizations providing a vision, I found that it is important to acknowledge that a vision consists of the major components of Core ideology and Envisioned future. First, Collins and Porras (1996) states that the major component of Core ideology helps organizations defined its vision by organizations acknowledging what they stand for and why they exists in society overall. Second, Collins and Porras (1996) states that the major component of Envisioned future entails what organizations aspire to become, achieve, and create (p. 78). Furthermore, the Envisioned future of organizations also aspire them to acknowledge the significant change and understand the progress

Target leadership developed a long term strategic plan is beyond day-to-day activity with a sustainable growth aligning with corporate purpose statement and core values. The leadership team developed a strategic plan that addressed how and what it does reflecting its mission enhancing shareholder values, keeping customer focused in central for whom it does. The Target leadership sets the objectives to specific performance target as a way to convert the vision and mission.

In today’s highly competitive market, the continuous changes that are occurring in the social, politic and economic environment create serious challenges in the corporate world. Corporations cannot afford to do business as usual if they want to remain in the game and be successful. In order to achieve their goals and objectives, they need to evolve, adapt, learn and apply different new strategies that will help them secure long-run success and performance. Among those strategies, we are going to discuss ten of them and their advantages in connection with corporation’s goals and objectives.

Now, it is a shared vision by the top, middle, and lower levels of the company with one mission in mind to do what is in the best interest of company.

Author of this book states that sustainably built single-family homes don't have to look ugly. In this book, homeowners and architects introducing their perspectives on the combining between contemporary architecture and ecology. For everyone who thinks that in the process of building or renovating a home, sustainability is a critical issue, for example, since energy is likely to remain costly for the foreseeable future. Using resources responsibly makes as much of a statement about a home as the selection of floor plans, building materials, or furniture. In an ideal version, our homes should be sustainable and look good at the same time; however, it does not happen always. Building Better show variations single-family homes from around the world whose architecture proves that sustainable and attractive are not

The findings showed that higher-performing companies, discussed strategies to protect the company's vision because this was their foundation. In other words, they wanted to protect and maintain the secret to their

“One of the key tasks of leadership is to give an organization a sense of direction” (Hill, Jones, & Schilling, 2015). Organization leaders need to set a clear vison for the

patents expiring in the near future they should channel the transformational leadership model so they can have a great chance of building innovators within its organizations.

In the fictional novel, Left Behind, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Rayford Steele and Cameron “Buck” Williams share the perspective of the story. It starts in the view of Rayford, a pilot on an overnight flight, looking forward to the next he could see Hattie Durham, a senior attendant. Even though he is already married to Irene, he found himself annoyed by her new obsession with religion. He wasn’t completely against religion, but was completely for it, either. He feels guilty for trying to pursue a relationship with Hattie, but feels that he cannot commit himself to Irene. He finally decided to go see Hattie, and walks out of the cockpit, and Hattie ran right into him. Sobbing, she shakily says that people are missing. Rayford doesn’t understand, and tries to tell her it is a big joke, or they are in the lavatory. She proceeds to tell him that most of the passengers are gone, only their clothes were left in their seats. He pushes around her and goes out to see for himself. Sure enough, passengers were missing.

In this paper, an analysis will be made about the innovative leader Vineet Nayar, a former CEO of HCLT. This paper examines and describes his leadership techniques within his organizations. In this paper, I will analyze the global trends that influenced the need for Nayar to create a more innovative organization. Also, this paper will introduce the five discovery skills and assess Nayar’s use of them as an innovative leader within his organization. Lastly, I will make recommendations for improvement on use of the discovery skills.

     Little can be said about visionary companies without citing the works of James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras. Collins and Porras dedicated six years to research in an attempt to define a visionary company. Their published work, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (199?), blanketed the world of business with a new perspective. According to Brewer’s (1995) interview, Collins defines a visionary company as follows:

To emphasize the need to have a well-developed business plan if one expects to move beyond the “embryonic stage” of a new business

* A sound vision and a visionary CEO can help organizations to sail cohesively through muddy waters. Especially in early or very difficult years of the organizations.

The case study Renovating Home Depot was the case of a leader who joined a successful business only to discover that the company was running out of growth opportunities and also did not have the basic systems needed for increased growth in place. Robert “Bob” Nardelli was chosen as the CEO of Home Depot based on his proven ability to reenergize slow-growth businesses. He was a leader that went all out to achieve his goals and was identified as someone who was “comfortable in his own suit”, and believes in being successful his own way. He made several innovations which were used in General Electric (GE) where he recorded past successes. We see the success demonstrated in the growth of revenue in Home Depot, as well as opening