The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.
JAMES C. COLLINSThe inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment – you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out.
More James C. Collins Quotes
-
-
Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
JAMES C. COLLINS -
Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
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. COLLINS -
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
JAMES C. COLLINS -
I am completely Socratic.
JAMES C. COLLINS