Built to Last

In this collection, Built to Last references 1 other book and is cited by 14 other books.

It draws on The Effective Executive.

It’s picked up by The Innovator's Dilemma, Steve Jobs and Amp It Up and 11 others.

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Built to Last is widely cited as one of the foundational texts of modern business strategy, though it attracts both devoted followers and methodological critics. Jim Collins himself treats it as the launching pad for Good to Great, Walter Isaacson references it in his Steve Jobs biography regarding Apple's endurance, and Patrick Lencioni builds his organisational clarity framework directly on its core-purpose and core-values concepts.

Verne Harnish incorporates its tools into the One-Page Strategic Plan in Scaling Up, and Tony Hsieh credits the visionary-company framework as an influence on Zappos's culture. However, Daniel Kahneman flags halo effect and survivorship bias concerns, and the authors of Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick critique it alongside In Search of Excellence for inferring success formulas without rigorous outside-view comparison -- a tension readers should be aware of when applying its lessons.