Jim Collins (6) (1958–)
Author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
For other authors named Jim Collins, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Jim Collins holds B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University. A visiting professor of business administration at Stanford Graduate School of Business, he is a management consultant. He has written several articles for the Harvard Business Review, Inc., Fortune magazine, California Management show more Review and Stanford Magazine. He is the co-author of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies; Managing the Small to Mid-Sized Firm: Readings, Cases and Instructor's Manual; Beyond Entrepreneurship; and Great by Choice. He has also worked with Hewlett Packard and McKinsey & Co. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Jim Collins
Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great (2005) 1,488 copies, 10 reviews
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All (2011) 934 copies, 14 reviews
Jim Collins at the Summit 3 copies
Associated Works
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (1989) — Preface, some editions — 18,352 copies, 174 reviews
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- Legal name
- Collins, James Charles
- Other names
- Colins, Jim
- Birthdate
- 1958-01-25
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Education
- Stanford University
- Awards and honors
- Distinguished Teaching Award, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, (1992)
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Built to Last, the defining management study of the '90s, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.
But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? Are there those that convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? If so, what are the distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?
Over five years, Jim Collins and his research team have analyzed the histories of 28 companies, discovering why some companies make the leap and others don't. Read about their findings in Good to Great.… (more)
But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? Are there those that convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? If so, what are the distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?
Over five years, Jim Collins and his research team have analyzed the histories of 28 companies, discovering why some companies make the leap and others don't. Read about their findings in Good to Great.… (more)
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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But after all that work the book still needed to be written.
I picked up a few things but overall it left me with more questions than it answered.