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Jim Collins — What to Make of a Life

Jim Collins — What to Make of a Life

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Self-Renewal

John W. Gardner

“He had written a great book”
“He had written a great book, a little book, back a number of years ago on self-renewal”— Jim Collins

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

What to Make of a Life

Jim Collins

“the latest work What to make of a life and we will certainly get to that”— Tim Ferriss
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Good to Great

Jim Collins

“I was off working on Built to Last and Good to Great. I was working on my company research”— Jim Collins
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Built to Last

Jim Collins

“I was off working on Built to Last and Good to Great. I was working on my company research”— Jim Collins
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Great by Choice

Jim Collins

“goes all the way back to when Morten Hansen and I were doing our book Great by Choice”— Jim Collins
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How the Mighty Fall

Jim Collins

“Good to Great, Built to Last, Great by Choice, How the Mighty Fall, so forth, where I was doing match pair studies”— Jim Collins

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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Peet's Coffee Arabian Mocha-Java

Peet's Coffee

“I take I pack Peet's ground coffee Arabian Mocha Java, a cone filter, and the filters themselves, a water boiler”— Jim Collins
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Beloved

Toni Morrison

“She doesn't publish Beloved till she's 56. She doesn't publish Jazz until 61, which is an astounding thing”— Jim Collins