About the author
Jim Collins is an American author and researcher whose books examine companies, leadership, sustained performance, decline, and organisational durability. His work uses comparative case selection to turn historical business outcomes into management concepts.
Built to Last, co-written with Jerry Porras, studied long-lived companies. Good to Great introduced Level 5 leadership, the Hedgehog Concept, disciplined culture, and the flywheel through firms selected for a sustained performance transition.
Where to start
Start with Good to Great for Collins's best-known framework, keeping its original comparison method and publication date in view when applying examples to current companies.
