Breakthrough: Successfully Crossing the Size Barrier of the Enterprise

Author: Davidson
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Bill Davidson, the author, served as a tenured professor of management at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and has written numerous management books. In the early 1990s, he was hired by IBM to study how struggling companies could adjust their positions in the next successful cycle. This book is the result of his decade-long in-depth research on 70 breakthrough companies, offering prescriptions on how to achieve and sustain excellence. It provides deeper insights into the fundamental elements of breakthroughs than Jim Collins' "Good to Great," along with more valuable and detailed examples to illustrate these elements. Currently, Bill Davidson serves as the chairman of MESA Institute, a strategic and leadership services group. The division of labor for this book is as follows: Associate Professor Chen Ruyan, former director of the English Teaching and Research Office at the Logistics Command College of the People's Liberation Army, is primarily responsible for the translation of Chapters 1, 2, and 3. Dr. Liu Haohua, associate professor, is primarily responsible for the translation of Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and the appendix, as well as the overall editing of the book.