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- Peak performance: Jim Collins has built his career on ideas that help businesses attain lasting greatness.
Jim Collins, who wrote such best-sellers as Built to Last, Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall, says his own company is not built to endure. Colli...
- Success
- Nbr. 2010, January 2010
- Jim Collins: How Great Companies Turn Crisis Into Opportunity
INTRODUCTION Since our time together at the 2006 ICMA annual conference in San Antonio, I've been deeply engaged in researching a fascinating question: what separates great enterprises from good ones when the world spins out of control, characterized by rapid change and unpredictable forces? [...] that's okay, because our research shows that it's possible to build a great institution that sustains exceptional performance for multiple decades, perhaps longer, even in the face of chaos, disruption, uncertainty, and violent change. The following Fortune magazine interview gives a preview glimpse of some of our findings, but 1 would reiterate here the primary lesson from all of our research studies: greatness is not primarily a function of circumstance, but of choice and discipline.
- PM. Public Management
- Vol. 91 Nbr. 6, July 2009
- Power play: business guru Jim Collins says great legislators find a way to get good things done.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jim Collins is the first to tell you he doesn't know very much about state legislatures. The former Stanford University bus...
- State Legislatures
- Vol. 36 Nbr. 1, January 2010

- He's Into the Mix Jim Collins of Hampden, the Creative Force Behind Jimbo's Spice Rubs, Loves His Job
Jim Collins has been around food for much of his adult life. The 46-year-old Hampden resident started working at a bakery while in high school. He went on to restaurant jobs, then ran his own catering business for a number of years.
- Bangor Daily News
- August 12, 2009
- United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stephen F. Ellender, Jim Swope, Roger Dale Collins, and Jim Bourgeois, Defendants-Appellants. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carl Tangredi, Defendant-Appellant., 947 F.2d 748 (5th Cir. 1991)
Patricia A. Thomas, Abbeville, La. (court-appointed), for Ellender. J. Lomax Jordan, Jr., Lafayette, La. (court-appointed), for Swope. Michael C. Pic...
- Federal Circuits
- Good to great: A conversation with Jim collins; Take the path to greatness.
HOW DOES ONE COMPANY BECOME GREAT WHILE ANOTHER IS MIRED in mediocrity? And just what does it take to be great? Author Jim Collins Looked at these que...
- Information Outlook
- Vol. 5 Nbr. 12, December 2001
- Q&A with Jim Collins: the best-selling author talks about moving schools from good to great.
As an award-winning physics teacher at Fairview High School in Boulder, Colo., Roger Briggs knew it wasn't acceptable for his science department to se...
- School Administrator
- Vol. 60 Nbr. 11, December 2003
- Best-Selling Author Jim Collins' Book Highlights How Good Firms Rose to Greatness
Best-selling author Jim Collins' Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't is a must-read, business leaders say. The text highlights 11 out of 1,435 established firms that Collins and his researchers determined rose to greatness. How did they excel? Through its people - self-motivators who changed with the times.
- Long Island Business News
- July 01, 2005
- Fda Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, Bestselling Author Jim Collins to Keynote Raps Annual Conference in Philadelphia
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Zachary Brousseau, Manager, Communications of RAPS, +1- 301-770-2920, ext. 245; zbrousseau@raps.org
- U.S. Newswire
- August 28, 2009
- Follow these leaders: thoughts and views from Jim Collins; Jim Collins spoke with Managing Editor Ellen M. Heffes in February--three months before his scheduled appearance as a keynote speaker at FEI's annual Summit in Chicago. The general topic: leadership related to today's business environment.
Jim Collins is the consummate long-term thinker. The former Stanford faculty member who now runs his own research laboratory views his role as "taking...
- Financial Executive
- Vol. 21 Nbr. 3, April 2005