The Wisdom of Collins — Favorite Books and Courses selected by Jim Collins

Verne Harnish is the author of The Rockefeller Habits, and the “Growth Guy” columnist.  Recently, he hosted an event for a group of coaches, and Jim Collins was one of the speakers.  What does best selling author (Good to Great; How the Mighty Fall) read?  Here is his list of his top ten book recommendations, and his top ten great courses from the Teaching Company, I feel an attack of ignorance coming on — I haven’t read enough of these!  (I got these from a weekly e-mail, but you can find the lists on Verne’s web site here).

Jim Collins

 

 

Ten Books Jim Collins Recommends

1. Churchill, The Second World War
2. Caro, Master of the Senate
3. Goodwin, Team of Rivals
4. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
5. Lewis, Moneyball
6. Homer, The Iliad
7. Drucker, The Effective Executive
8. Gardner, Self-Renewal
9. Lewis, Assault on Lake Casitas
10. Manchester, Goodbye Darkness

Jim Collins Top 10 Great Courses from The Teaching Company
1. How to Listen to and Understand Great Music by Robert Greenberg.
2. Great American Presidents
3. Argumentation – The Study of Effective Reasoning
4. What are the Chances? Probability Made Clear
5. Economic History of the United States, 1900 - 2000
6. Art Across the Ages
7. Dante’s Divine Comedy
8. Emperors of Rome
9. The History of Ancient Egypt
10. History of Modern Russia + From Yao to Mao – 5000 years of Chinese History

 

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