Good To Great Quotes by James C. Collins, Don Meyer, John D. Rockefeller, Thomston, Viktor E. Frankl, Fred Brooks and many others.
Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.
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.
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as “passion” as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
Indeed, the real question is not, “Why greatness?” but “What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?” if you have to ask the question, “Why should we try to make it great? Isn’t success enough?” then you’re probably int he wrong line of work.
Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.
If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.
Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.
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