The steady seven

Jim Collins's and Morten T. Hansen's "10X" companies outperformed their industries by a wide margin. Here's how they did it.

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Amgen CEO Kevin Sharer
Not the most innovative biotech firm, but combination of creativity and discipline led it to outperform its industry from 1980 to 2002.


By Geoff Colvin, senior-editor-at-large - Last updated September 30 2011: 5:27 AM ET
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How to manage through chaos

It's one thing to rise to greatness. It's another to do so in a time of upheaval, disruption, and economic turmoil (hello, 2011). How do some companies do it? Management guru Jim Collins shares the answers for the first time.

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