It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don’t you invest more time being interested?” Collin’s advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.
JAMES C. COLLINSWe must reject the idea… Well-intentioned, but dead wrong… That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become “more like a business.” Most businesses… Like most of anything else in life… Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.
More James C. Collins Quotes
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It’s what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That’s how real a dream can be and should be)
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The 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.
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We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.
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Discipline is consistency of action.
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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
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I am completely Socratic.
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Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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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.
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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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