The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
JAMES C. COLLINSThe only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
JAMES C. COLLINSNot every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.
JAMES C. COLLINSThe only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
JAMES C. COLLINSYou absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
JAMES C. COLLINSThose who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
JAMES C. COLLINSWhether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.
JAMES C. COLLINSChange your practices without abandoning your core values.
JAMES C. COLLINSThe only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.
JAMES C. COLLINSFirst figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn’t the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.
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. COLLINSTo have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.’s all grown from the inside – well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
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. COLLINSIf you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
JAMES C. COLLINSIn an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results.
JAMES C. COLLINSLevel 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will.
JAMES C. COLLINSBy definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
JAMES C. COLLINS