Jim Collins
Biography
Jim Collins
Jim Collins has co-authored four books, including the classic Built to Last and Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... And Others Don't. His work has been featured in Fortune, The Economist, USA Today, Industry Week, Inc., and Harvard Business Review. Jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. In 1995, he founded a management-research laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, where he now conducts multi-year research projects and works with executives from the private, public, and social sectors. Jim has served as a teacher to senior executives and CEOs at corporations that include Starbucks Coffee, Merck, Times Mirror, Patagonia, American General, W.L. Gore, and hundreds more. He has also worked with organizations in the non-corporate sector such as the Leadership Network of Churches, Johns Hopkins Medical School, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Non-Profit Management. Jim invests a significant portion of his energy in large-scale research projects to develop fundamental insights. He uses his management laboratory to work directly with executives and to develop practical tools for applying the concepts that flow from his research. In addition, Jim is an avid rock climber and has made free ascents of the West Face of El Capitan and the East Face of Washington Column in Yosemite Valley.
Jim Collins
