A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.
JAMES C. COLLINSA visionary company doesn’t simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.
JAMES C. COLLINSNot one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
JAMES C. COLLINSThere is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, “We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.”
JAMES C. COLLINSThe main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
JAMES C. COLLINSCompanies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
JAMES C. COLLINSThe only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
JAMES C. COLLINSEverytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
JAMES C. COLLINSThrow leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
JAMES C. COLLINSChange your practices without abandoning your core values.
JAMES C. COLLINSThe secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.
JAMES C. COLLINSConsider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
JAMES C. COLLINSGreat companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
JAMES C. COLLINSIt may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as “passion” as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.
JAMES C. COLLINSI can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
JAMES C. COLLINSThose who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
JAMES C. COLLINSWe are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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