Best Good To Great Quotes
"What separates people, Stockdale taught me, is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great)
"While you can buy your way to growth, you absolutely cannot buy your way to greatness."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"Thoughtless reliance on technology is a liability,"
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"The good-to-great companies made a habit of putting their best people on their best opportunities, not their biggest problems. The comparison companies had a penchant for doing just the opposite, failing to grasp the fact that managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great. There is an important"
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"That’s what makes death so hard—unsatisfied curiosity. —BERYL MARKHAM,"
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"First Who ... Then What. We expected that good-to-great leaders would begin by setting a new vision and strategy. We found instead that they first got the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats—and then they figured out where to drive it. The old adage “People are your most important asset” turns out to be wrong. People are not your most important asset. The right people are."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great)
Good To Great Quotes On Leadership
"Charisma can be as much a liability as an asset, as the strength of your leadership personality can deter people from bringing you the brutal facts."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"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. The management team"
— James C. Collins (Good to Great)
"The moment a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary reality, you have a recipe for mediocrity, or worse. This is one of the key reasons why less charismatic leaders often produce better long-term results than their more charismatic counterparts. Indeed,"
— James C. Collins (Good to Great)
"The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless. To quickly grasp this concept, think of United States"
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"Larger-than-life, celebrity leaders who ride in from the outside are negatively correlated with taking a company from good to great. Ten of eleven good-to-great CEOs came from inside the company, whereas the comparison companies tried outside CEOs six times more often."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"Every good-to-great company had Level 5 leadership during the pivotal transition years. • “Level 5” refers to a five-level hierarchy of executive capabilities, with Level 5 at the top. Level 5 leaders embody a paradoxical mix of personal humility and professional will. They are ambitious, to be sure, but ambitious first and foremost for the company, not themselves. • Level 5 leaders set up their successors for even greater success in the next generation, whereas egocentric Level 4 leaders often set up their successors for failure. • Level 5 leaders display a compelling modesty, are self-effacing and understated. In contrast, two thirds of the comparison companies had leaders with gargantuan personal egos that contributed to the demise or continued mediocrity of the company. • Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions. • Level 5 leaders display a workmanlike diligence—more plow horse than show horse. • Level 5 leaders look out the window to attribute success to factors other than themselves. When things go poorly, however, they look in the mirror and blame themselves, taking full responsibility. The comparison CEOs often did just the opposite—they looked in the mirror to take credit for success, but out the window to assign blame for disappointing results."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great )
Good To Great Motivational Quotes
"You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great)
"You absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts. The good-to-great companies operated"
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"Discover your core values and purpose beyond just making money (core ideology) and combine this with the dynamic of preserve the core/stimulate progress."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"There is nothing I find more exciting than picking a question that I don’t know the answer to and embarking on a quest for answers."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"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. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit. —HARRY S. TRUMAN1"
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
Good To Great Book Quotes
"Need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don’t need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don’t need excessive controls."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great)
"Lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"We find out who they are by asking them why they made decisions in their life. The answers to these questions give us insight into their core values."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
"This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great)
"Technology is important—you can’t remain a laggard and hope to be great. But technology by itself is never a primary cause of either greatness or decline."
— James C. Collins (Good to Great)
"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. Collins (Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't)
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