A couple days ago I laid in bed for a couple hours and plowed through Jim Collins' latest book, How The Mighty Fall:and Why Some Companies Never Give In. First off I need to say I love Jim Collins' work. If you haven't read Built to Last or Good to Great you need to right now. He does an amazing job of performing great research to find out why organizations succeed and in his latest book, why they fail.
The book originally began as an article and after diving into it he found that the topic needed to be addressed more fully. It really is an important thing to look at and the timing of the books release is quite interesting with the collapse of some of America's great institutions.
If you're the leader of an organization that has experienced some success this book will help you identify the beginning stages of descent and will help you counteract. How The Mighty Fall is a fairly easy read and definitely worth your time.
