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James C. Collins (born 1958) is an American researcher, author, speaker and consultant focused on the subject of business management and company sustainability and growth. Biography Collins received a BS in Mathematical Sciences at Stanford University, graduating in 1980. He then spent 18 months in McKinsey & Co.'s San Francisco office. He was exposed to what may have been an influential project for him – two partners at McKinsey, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, were running a McKinsey research project that later turned into the best-seller In Search of Excellence.After his time at McKinsey, he returned to study at Stanford, graduating with an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1983. He then worked as a product manager for Hewlett-Packard for 18 months, before quitting to help manage his wife's ascending triathlon career.Collins began his research and teaching career on the faculty at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business in 1988, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. He published his first book, Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company co-authored with William C. Lazier, in 1992. He published his first best-seller Built To Last, co-authored with Jerry Porras, in 1994. In 1995, he founded a management laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, where he now conducts research and teaches executives from the corporate and social sectors. During that time, Collins has served as a senior executive at CNN International, and also worked with social sector organizations, such as: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Girl Scouts of the USA, the Leadership Network of Churches, the American Association of K-12 School Superintendents, and the United States Marine Corps.Collins is married to former triathlete and 1985 Ironman World Championship winner, Joanne Ernst. Work Research and writing Collins has authored or co-authored six books based on his research, including the classics: Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies Good to Great Great by Choice How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give InBuilt to Last has been a fixture on the Business Week best-seller list for more than six years, and has been translated into 25 languages. Good to Great, "about the factors common to those few companies ... to sustain remarkable success for a substantial period," attained long-running positions on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Business Week best-seller lists, has sold over 2.5 million hardcover copies, and has been translated into 32 languages.His most recent book is Great by Choice. Before that he wrote How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In. Collins frequently contributes to Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune and other publications. Consulting Jim Collins is also a speaker, consultant, and seminar leader. Publications Books 1992: Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company by James C. Collins and William C. Lazier 1994: Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras 2001: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don’t by James C. Collins 2005: Good to Great and the Social Sectors by James C. Collins 2009: How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by James C. Collins 2011: Great By Choice by James C. Collins and Morten T. Hansen 2019: Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by James C. Collins 2020: BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0): Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company by James C. Collins and William C. LazierReferences External links Official website . Discover the Jim Collins popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jim Collins books.

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    Lord Jim

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    The Boy

    Richard Williams

    'Captures the bold, engaging spirit of one of Britain’s bestloved sporting heroes' Sunday Times'A fascinating read and sure to be the definitive account of his ...

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    Good to Great

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    The Bully Pulpit

    Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s dynamic history of Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft and the first decade of the Progressive era, ...

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    The Folds

    Clint Townsend

    On July 23rd, 1978, Danny Lee Albright turned ten years old. As a birthday present, his father, Tommy Lee, surprised Danny and his four friends with a trip to meet Superman at the ...

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    Empresas que caen

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    Good Booty

    Ann Powers

    NPR Best Books of 2017In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and ...

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    One Question

    Ken Coleman

    The motivating host of one of the nation's largest leadership conferences offers a collection of inspirational and applicable life lessons through conversations with various high p...

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    The Grid

    Matt Watkinson

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    Leading Without Authority

    Keith Ferrazzi & Noel Weyrich

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never Eat Alone redefines collaboration with a radical new workplace operating system in which leadership no longer demands an offi...

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