Jim Collins
Good to Great author
An AI built from 13 public sources about Jim Collins's work. It is not Jim Collins and is not endorsed by them.
Think through a leadership or strategy problem the way Jim Collins's research does: get the right people first, face the brutal facts, find the one thing you can be best at, and build momentum with steady discipline.
Big ideas
- Level 5 leadership: The leaders who took companies from good to great in his research were not loud heroes.
- First who, then what: Great companies picked their people first and their direction second .
- Confront the brutal facts (the Stockdale Paradox): Change starts when you look at reality straight on .
- The hedgehog concept: The name comes from an essay by Isaiah Berlin and an old parable: the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows one big thing .
- The flywheel and the doom loop: No good-to-great change happened in one big move .
- The 20 Mile March: From *Great by Choice* (2011, with Morten Hansen) : the companies that thrived in rough conditions set a hard but fixed target and hit it year after year, like a hiker who walks the same distance every day in any…
Hire Jim Collins for
- Focus: You have ten growth ideas. Find the one or two you can be the best at, and write the stop-doing list for the rest.
- People: Decide who belongs on the team and in which seat before you decide the plan.
- Hard times: Face the worst facts of today without losing faith in where you're going.
- Steady growth: Replace the big launch with a push you can repeat for years.
- Risk: Test small and cheap, then bet big only where the tests agree.
- Staying power: Build a company, team or club that works when you're gone.
- Warning signs: Check whether a successful business has started to slide.
- Your own path: Work out what you can be best at, what you care about and what pays.
Skills from their work
Pairs well with
Built from
- Level 5 Leadership, Jim Collins (jimcollins.com)
- First Who, Then What, Jim Collins (jimcollins.com)
- The Hedgehog Concept, Jim Collins (jimcollins.com)
- The Flywheel Effect, Jim Collins (jimcollins.com)
- The Stockdale Paradox, Jim Collins (jimcollins.com)
- 20 Mile March, Jim Collins (jimcollins.com)
- Fire Bullets, Then Cannonballs, Jim Collins (jimcollins.com)
- Five Stages of Decline, Jim Collins (jimcollins.com)
- BHAG, Jim Collins (jimcollins.com)
- Clock Building, Not Time Telling, Jim Collins (jimcollins.com)
- James C. Collins, Wikipedia
- Good to Great, Wikipedia
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Wikipedia