Self Improvement – The Top 101 Experts that Help Us Improve Our Lives

JIM COLLINS

(Expert # 44)

Jim Collins Quick Facts

Main Area: Business
NY Times Best-Seller: “Good to Great”
Profile: Author; Researcher; Teacher

Jim Collins Biography

Jim Collins is a student of enduring great companies—how they grow, how they
attain superior performance, and how good companies can become great
companies. Having invested more than a decade of research into the topic, Jim has
co-authored four books, including the classic Built to Last
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Distinguished Teaching Award. After seven years at Stanford, Jim returned to his

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usiness Week best-seller list for more than six years, and The New York Times
best-seller, Good to Great.

ven by a relentless curiosity, Jim began his research and teaching career on

ulty of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he received the

hometown of Boulder, Colorado to found his management research laboratory.

Jim set up his research lab in the same building where he atte
Still a place of learning, Jim uses the laboratory to conduct large-scale research
projects to develop fundamental insights and then translate those findings into
books, articles, and lectures. Jim continues to conduc
maintaining an active teaching schedule with leaders
sectors.

D vi Riklan’s Favorite Jim Collins Quotes and Thoughts

• th to greatness, it turns out, requires simplicity and diligence. It
  requires clarity, not instant illumination.


• Start a “stop-doing” list. ...”Stop-doing” lists are more important than “to-
  do” lists.

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