James C. Collins

Get the right people on the bus and in the right seat.

James Collins

Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

James Collins

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

James Collins

If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.

James Collins

In determing ‘the right people,’ the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.

James Collins

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

James Collins

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

James Collins

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

James Collins

Some managers are uncomfotable with expressing emotion about their dreams, but it’s the passion and emotion that will attract and motivate others.

James Collins

Start a ‘stop doing’ list. I’ll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your ‘to do’ list.

James Collins