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. 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.
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Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.
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Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.
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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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I am completely Socratic.
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The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.
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The only acceptable goals are measurable,” but that’s actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you’re making progress.
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Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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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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If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I’d put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn.
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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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