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Author: Ralph Stair, George Reynolds
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According to Jim Collins, those who develop great companies recognize that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others, the ability to get and keep enough of the “great people”.
Hence, the correct option is “D”.
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In examining the history of the visionary
Decisions that look like the result of
companies, we were struck by how often
they made some of their best moves
smart strategic thinking could, instead,
be attributed to a culture that values
not by detailed strategic planning,
opportunistic experimenting and
intentional mishaps. Collins and Porras
(2002) point out their surprise at finding
that many of the visionary companies
but rather by experimentation, trial
and error, opportunism, and--quite
literally--accident. What looks in
hindsight like a brilliant strategy
that they researched "made some of
was often the residual result of
their best moves not by detailed
opportunistic experimentation and
planning, but rather by experimentation,
"purposeful accidents."
trial and error, opportunism, and--quite
literally--accident" (p. 141).
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Collins, J. C., & Porras, J. I. (2002). Built
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Principles of Information Systems (MindTap Course List)
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