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Every book Jim Collins recommended on podcasts
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Jim Collins appears on, in one place — not just one.
Jim Collins is an author, researcher, and speaker who focuses on business management and organizational longevity. During appearances on The Daily Stoic and The Tim Ferriss Show, he discussed several musical works and his own notable publications. Collins talked about the album Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, praising it as an exceptionally stunning piece of music. He reflected on his own writing process, discussing how his book Good to Great completely changed his life and detailing the research and launch behind Built to Last, which he co-authored with Jerry I. Porras. Collins also referenced his book Great by Choice, co-authored with Morten T. Hansen, to explain the origin of the 'twenty-mile march' concept, and mentioned Good to Great again to introduce the 'hedgehog concept' for simplifying complex organizational strategies. Through these conversations, Collins connected his extensive research on successful enterprises with personal reflections on creativity, dedication, and the rigorous journey of writing impactful works.
Books recommended by Jim Collins
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Good to Great
Good to Great by Jim Collins is a prominent business and management book that investigates what makes companies transition from being merely good to achieving sustained greatness.
Discussed“my answer is you can't all you can do is write the best piece of work you're capable of at the moment that you're writing it good to great which will forever be something that you know completely changed my life”
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Built to Last
Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry I.
Discussed“that's where Jerry and I did built to last”
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Great by Choice
Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten T.
Discussed“there's a concept in Great by choice called the 20m March and so I kind of had a 20 mile March”
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Raising Sand
Discussed“and they do raising sand and you would think that well you know it was the zeppelin years well there was great music but raising stand is stunningly exceptional piece of music”
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Books Jim Collins wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| What To Do When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned | Jim Collins | The Daily Stoic | 2026-04-11 | 2 |
| #741: Jim Collins and Ed Zschau | The Tim Ferriss Show | 2024-05-28 | 4 |
Other mentions (12: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I was off working on Built to Last and Good to Great.”
“I was off working on Built to Last and Good to Great.”
“Back in Built to Last, which was about visionary companies and enduring great companies and all that, Jerry Porras and I set out and our original question was to study the concept of corporate vision”
“And so, I've essentially is very similar to what happened with Built to Last, with Good to Great, whatever. I started with a narrower question.”
“And so, I've essentially is very similar to what happened with Built to Last, with Good to Great, whatever. I started with a narrower question.”
“And one way that it has really affected me is we talked about the right people on the bus from Good to Great. Still true.”
“the first time that I began to see this distinction between luck and return on luck, well, goes all the way back to when Morten Hansen and I were doing our book Great by Choice.”
“In my prior work, Good to Great, Built to Last, Great by Choice, How the Mighty Fall, so forth, where I was doing match pair studies”
“In my prior work, Good to Great, Built to Last, Great by Choice, How the Mighty Fall, so forth, where I was doing match pair studies”
“In my prior work, Good to Great, Built to Last, Great by Choice, How the Mighty Fall, so forth, where I was doing match pair studies”
“In my prior work, Good to Great, Built to Last, Great by Choice, How the Mighty Fall, so forth, where I was doing match pair studies”
“Company standpoint, what Morten and I found in Great by Choice is that the only mistakes you can learn from and the only bad luck events you can learn from are the ones you survive.”