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Jim Collins - World Renowned Industry Expert
Jim Collins Quick Facts
Main Areas: BusinessBest Sellers: “Good to Great”
Career Focus: Author; Researcher; Teacher
This expert page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Jim Collins. We created a page on SelfGrowth.com because we believe that Jim has a powerful message and important products and books to help us create more effective companies, more effective employees and a more effective world.
Jim has authored or co-authored many books including: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don’t, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Managing the Small to Mid-Sized Company: Concepts and Cases, Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company.
Additional information about his company can be found on his website by going to http://www.jimcollins.com
Other Programs & Highlights
Jim’s work has been featured in Fortune, The Economist, Fast Company, USA Today, Industry Week, Business Week, Newsweek, Inc., and Harvard Business Review. In addition to his day job, he is an avid rock climber and has made free ascents of the West Face of El Capitan and the East Face of Washington Column in Yosemite Valley. To listen to Jim’s thoughts, go to the Lecture Hall section of his website at www.jimcollins.com.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Jim Collins
• Start a “stop-doing” list. …”Stop-doing” lists are more important than “to-do” lists.
• The real path to greatness, it turns out, requires simplicity and diligence. It requires clarity, not instant illumination.
• Good-to-great leaders...know how to simplify a complex world into a single, organizing idea—the kind of basic principle that unifies, organizes, and guides all decisions.
Getting Started With Jim Collins
The best way to get started with Jim Collins is to read his book Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t. Even though Jim Collins is known more for his “Business Improvement” than for his “Self Improvement,” I feel the impact he has made on people and business justifies his being considered one of the Top 101 Self Improvement Experts.
Good to Great primarily discusses what goes into a company’s transformation from mediocre to excellent, but his book can also give us insights into how we can help ourselves transform from good to great.
Two issues for companies that easily transition into “Self Improvement” include:
1. Discover your core values and purpose beyond simply making money.
2. Greatness is not a function of circumstance; it is clearly a matter of conscious choice.
Jim Collins’ book is unquestionably a business classic, but I believe it is also an important book for anybody looking to improve their lives.
