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Exclusive: Jim Collins on ‘Thriving In Chaos’

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They didn’t do well in that environment, and the engine blocks cracked. We went back and ran an analysis on the cash-to-assets ratio of companies that did really well in these kinds of environments, even when they were small. We found that the discipline to have a very high cash-to-assets ratio showed up early in their history.