How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In: Audiobook
Book 4 of the Good to Great series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In audiobook runs 4.7 hours unabridged, narrated by Jim Collins (about 3.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 4.7 hours of listening.
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| 30 min / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day | 5 days |
| 2 hours / day | 3 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 4 days |
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What our data says
- At 4.7 hours, it is shorter than 66% of the 6,016 Management & Leadership audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Jim Collins
Jim Collins narrates 9 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 77 hours in all.
- Good to Great
- Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
- The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
- How the Mighty Fall
- Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0
About as long, on the Management & Leadership shelf
619 Management & Leadership audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Vision-Driven Leader: 10 Questions to Focus Your Efforts, Energize Your Team, and Scale Your Business
- #GIRLBOSS
- Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
- Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
- Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In is book 4 of Jim Collins's Good to Great series: a 4.7-hour unabridged recording, read by Jim Collins, released July 2, 2009, on the Management & Leadership and Business & Career Development shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 4.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- Jim Collins
- Released
- July 2, 2009
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Management & Leadership, Business & Career Development
- Series
- Good to Great #4
- ISBN
- 9781409065050
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How long is the How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In audiobook?
How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In runs 4.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 3.1 hours.
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Who narrates How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In?
How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In is narrated by Jim Collins.