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Jim Collins Best Selling Author and Business Strategist

Jim Collins is a renowned author, a student of enduring great companies and he serves as a teacher and mentor to leaders throughout the corporate and social sectors. Formerly a faculty member at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award, Jim now works from his management research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Jim invests a significant portion of his energy in large-scale research projects to develop fundamental insights and then translate those findings into books, articles and lectures.

Business Week Best Seller list for over six years, translated into 35 languages and sold over three million copies world-wide

Jim Collins

In detail

Jim has worked with CEO's and senior executives at a number of corporations including Starbucks Coffee, Merck, Times Mirror Patagonia, American General and hundreds more. He has also worked extensively with a host of non-corporate clients such as the Leadership Network of Churches, John Hopkins Medical School and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Jim holds degrees in business administration and mathematical sciences from Stanford University, and honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Colorado and the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.

What he offers you

Jim invests a significant portion of his energy in large-scale research projects to develop fundamental insights and then translate those findings into books, articles and lectures. He uses his management laboratory to work directly with executives and to develop practical tools for applying the concepts that flow from his research to facilitate the decision making processes for big business. In 2011, 2009 and 2007 Thinkers 50, the global ranking of management gurus, placed him among the list of most influential thinkers. Jim frequently contributes to Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune and other magazines, journals, etc.

How he presents

A true professional and a highly experienced speaker, Jim Collins' wealth of knowledge gained from many years of hard work and in-depth research into the inner workings of big business is proving invaluable for a multitude of diverse clients the world over.

Languages

He presents in English.

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Topics

  • Moving Forward Beyond Excellence
  • Secrets of a Great Company
  • Understanding Organisational Change
  • Learning Organisations and How they Tick
  • Developing Learning Capabilities
  • How Giants Continue to Grow

Publications

  • 2011
    Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
  • 2005
    He published a monograph: Good to Great and the Social Sectors
  • 2001
    Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't
  • 1994
    Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
  • 1994
    Managing the Small to Mid-Sized Company: Concepts and Cases: Homewood

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