Jim Collins

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5 total works indexed

1. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 19,324x

2. The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

   · 1996 · cited 18,867x

3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,514x

4. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,355x

5. The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments

   · 2009 · cited 13,930x

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Quotes

• “There is a direct relationship between the absence of celebrity and the presence of good-to-great results. Why? First, when you have a celebrity, the company turns into “the one genius with 1,000 helpers.” It creates a sense that the whole thing is really about the CEO. At a deeper level, we found that for leaders to make something great, their ambition has to be for the greatness of the work and the company, rather than for themselves.”
• “Those who built the visionary companies wisely understood that it is better to understand who you are than where you are going — for where you are going will almost certainly change”
• “Core values = The organization’s essential and enduring tenets – a small set of general guiding principles, not to be confused with specific cultural or operating practices, and not to be compromised for financial gain or short-term expediency.”
• “It is better to first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats, and then figure out where to drive.”
• “The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.”
• “Most businesses -— like most of anything else in life -— fall somewhere between mediocre and good. Few are great. When you compare great companies with good ones, many widely practiced business norms turn out to correlate with mediocrity, not greatness. So, then, why would we want to import the practices of mediocrity into the social sectors?”

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Key dates

Born

7 November 1923

Died

1 January 1996

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Jim

Family name

Collins

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Place of birth

Colne

Place of death

Nottingham

Occupation

association football player

Languages spoken

English language

Sport

association football

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