This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders.
It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights.
Nor is it about just having a corporate vision.
This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial.
This is a book about visionary companies.
' Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Collins and Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies.