Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Jim Collins

T1StrategistsManagement and organisation

American researcher, author, speaker and consultant on business management and how companies sustain growth.

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Jim Collins - Articles

Built to Last and Good to Great are the primary research sources the enduring-company literature builds on and argues with.

8 books of their own · 69 articles · 24 books they recommend

Books 8Recommends 24Writing 69Profiles 2Links 1

Start here

  1. Beyond EntrepreneurshipWilliam C. Lazier, 1992
  2. Built to LastJerry I. Porras, 1994
  3. Good to Great2001
Beyond EntrepreneurshipBeyond Entrepreneurship
T4 Beyond Entrepreneurship
Jim Collins, William C. Lazier · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

How leaders turn a founder-driven startup into a company that lasts.

Recommended by: Reed Hastings

Built to LastBuilt to Last
T1 Built to Last
Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

What eighteen long-lived companies did differently from close rivals in their fields.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Drew Houston, Ev Williams and 3 others

Good to GreatGood to Great
T2 Good to Great
Jim Collins · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

What eleven companies did to turn fifteen ordinary years into fifteen great ones.

Recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 16 others

Good to Great and the Social SectorsGood to Great and the Social Sectors
T4 Good to Great and the Social Sectors
Jim Collins · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Good to Great's principles applied to non-profits and the public sector.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

How the Mighty FallHow the Mighty Fall
T4 How the Mighty Fall
Jim Collins · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

The stages by which great companies decline, and how to spot and reverse them early.

Recommended by: Alfred Lin

Great by ChoiceGreat by Choice
T4 Great by Choice
Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

What companies that beat their industries tenfold in turbulent times did differently.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Tony Hsieh, Alfred Lin

Turning the FlywheelTurning the Flywheel
T4 Turning the Flywheel
Jim Collins · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Monograph companion to Good to Great

BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0)
T4 BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0)
Jim Collins, William C. Lazier · 2020
Open LibraryGoodreads

Expanded edition of the 1992 book

Beyond EntrepreneurshipHow leaders turn a founder-driven startup into a company that lasts.1992T4Reed Hastings
Built to LastWhat eighteen long-lived companies did differently from close rivals in their fields.1994T1Mohnish Pabrai, Drew Houston, Ev Williams and 3 others
Good to GreatWhat eleven companies did to turn fifteen ordinary years into fifteen great ones.2001T2Brian Armstrong, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 16 others
Good to Great and the Social SectorsGood to Great's principles applied to non-profits and the public sector.2005T4Mohnish Pabrai
How the Mighty FallThe stages by which great companies decline, and how to spot and reverse them early.2009T4Alfred Lin
Great by ChoiceWhat companies that beat their industries tenfold in turbulent times did differently.2011T4Mohnish Pabrai, Tony Hsieh, Alfred Lin
Turning the FlywheelMonograph companion to Good to Great2019T4–
BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0)Expanded edition of the 1992 book2020T4–

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