Jim Collins - A Rare Interview with a Reclusive Polymath | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)
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Jim Collins (jimcollins.com) is a student and teacher of what makes great companies tick, and a Socratic advisor to leaders in the business and social sectors. He has authored or coauthored eight books that have together sold 10+ million copies worldwide, including Good to Great, Good to Great and the Social Sectors, Built to Last, How the Mighty Fall, Great by Choice, and his newest work, Turning the Flywheel.
Driven by a relentless curiosity, Jim began his research and teaching career on the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1992. In 1995, he founded a management laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.
In 2017, Forbes selected Jim as one of the 100 Greatest Living Business Minds.
Jim is also an avid rock climber and has completed single-day ascents of El Capitan and Half Dome in Yosemite Valley.
Intro [00:00]
Jim asks me a few questions:
What was the subject of my Princeton senior thesis? [08:24]
How do I go about acquiring a new language? [09:29]
Does language constrain or enhance the concepts we develop? [11:54]
What was it like to take a writing class from John McPhee [15:40]
Conceptual vessels [24:29]
The Level 5 Leadership hierarchy [30:27]
Among leaders, how did Jim and his team use research data to identify genuine humility and separate it from false humility? [35:25]
Inspiring students and why Jim keeps a stopwatch with three timers in his pocket [40:26]
Jim's time tracking spreadsheet [47:32]
The relentless pursuit of “discipline in service of creativity” [52:45]
The crucial 3 components for living the kind of life Jim wants to lead [56:27]
How does Jim define what counts as “creative?” [59:27]
Sleep and the benefits of napping [1:07:10]
What is the bug book, and how does it tie in with the Hedgehog Concept? [1:15:01]
"Who luck” and why Jim feels his life has really just begun at age 61. [1:24:26]
On making sure time with mentors is a win-win [1:29:07]
What big question does Jim think Peter Drucker was trying to answer? [1:33:42]
Two important lessons Jim learned from Peter Drucker [1:35:32]
What is a flywheel? [1:00:00]
How the team at Amazon elaborated on Good to Great’s flywheel principle [1:44:59]
What can people expect from the Turning the Flywheel monograph? [1:50:25]
What is Jim’s own flywheel? Where does it start, and what fuels its perpetuation? [1:53:21]
Vicious circles vs. virtuous cycles [1:55:42]
Doom loop vs. flywheel [1:57:36]
The best decision Jim ever made [2:04:18]
Fire bullets before you fire cannonballs. [2:06:00]
When does the option of a safety net have a negative value? [2:08:57]
Parting thoughts. [2:11:51]
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Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 200 million downloads and been selected for “Best of iTunes” three years running.
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Brilliant, requires pauses, note taking, and a lot of thinking. Thank you Ferriss and Collins.
I love the talk on sleep, napping, etc. It is literally exactly how it works for me. I take a 15-minute nap in my vehicle, put my head on my desk, etc., and I am a new person upon waking.
Thank you Tim. Jim is one of my best 3 authors ever. He is actually the best for me. I can listen to this over and over forever.
This is amazing Tim!!! Good pure Gold!!!!!
One of the best conversations I've listened to... Genius meets another genius 😎
1:38. Peter Druker comment. The right question is How to be more useful Not How to be more successful
0:00 not the show show 5:30 tim intro 8:23 jim intro
@MrKevin1144
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@TheInroad
3 жыл бұрын
We don’t deserve you
@phomzaraboon7688
2 жыл бұрын
thnx
Great podcast, is it just me or the sound quality was quite inconsistent.
The comments about your writing teacher are so vivid
Jim Collins has summitted the tallest peaks of the human mind and business potential. I would love to spend just one hour with him on the face of El Capitan with him discussing where and why to insert the next pitōn. Then I will have self actûâlîzéd and could proceed to do a swan dive off the cliff into the abyss of reason.
4x time listening to this. I keep getting more.
@quantumpotential7639
3 жыл бұрын
You are a dedicated absorber of wisdom. Wow! 💕💪🇺🇸🔥
Ideas persist. Leaders perish.
Wow. McPhee to the top of tbr. Tim's command of language is apparently, at least in part, a bow to McPhee..?! Sign me up.
5:29
@realtorcarlyoptionone6474
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!! 💯🙌🙌
@MrKevin1144
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@Estado_Alterado
2 жыл бұрын
VIP
Thanks for sharing
What an outstanding example of academia actually working. Lol. Real learning can happen in school! Thanks Tim for this awesome show!
“You have to find what you are coded for as distinct for just what you are good at, study yourself like a bug”
I woke up to this and its beautiful God wanted me to here this/
1:33:50 is a special kind of pure Jim Collins gem about Peter Drucker
starts at 8:25
*Gonna watch this one later! *
"An option to come back has negative value"
Yo, I have an eBay account and a storage unit full of things. Everyday I avoid listing it. I need the money. I'm not sure what I would do with the money. I'm homeless. I live at the storage unit. I had a van before. My plan is get a car, or rent a car from Avis and do Postmates, doordash, etc. Etc. All day like 16 hours a day. When I had the van I didn't do deliveries it would over heat. My friend wouldn't fix it. I worked for my friend cleaning out his office. He said he was going to pay me this was October the first. I have not got the money yet. It's just enough to pay off my credit card so I can then rent the car and start doing this. But everyday I wait. I think I'm avoiding doing the eBay stuff because it's actually the guy who owes me money it's his eBay account and PayPal, I messed mine up years ago. Should I take him to small claims, the guy gave him the money to give to me, should I take that guy to court or my friend who received the money. I'm sure he needs the money more the me. But to be honest everyday for 2 months I would think about this, I would get very angry then get depressed then sleep all day.
@quantumpotential7639
3 жыл бұрын
How are you doing now, four months later? Door Dash or Uber eats is a treadmill waiting to happen. Once you get on, have a plan in place to exit quickly. And move on ASAP. good luck.
god, Tim bumbs me out, but ya gotta listen sometimes..