How the Mighty Fall

CNLP 809 | Get Past Broke Thinking In Your Church: The Lean Startup's Eric Reis on When To Take A Risk and Why Harder is Easier

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, 9 June 2026. The book comes up at 20 min 31 sec in.

Carey Nieuwhof names this as his personal favorite Jim Collins book—over the better-known Good to Great—and recalls that Collins himself said no one had ever asked him to discuss it before appearing on Nieuwhof's podcast. Nieuwhof raises it to frame his interest in why once-great organizations decline, bridging into the episode's main conversation about Eric Ries's research on the same theme.

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