Good To Great Quotes - Page 2

• In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.

  James C. Collins

  Meaningful, Hands, Creating

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• 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.

  James C. Collins

  Smart, Self, People

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• Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Growth, Great Company

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• Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Enemy

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• It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?" Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.

  James C. Collins

  Heart, Interesting, Advice

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• A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.

  James C. Collins

  Leadership, People, Growth

  "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't". Book by James C. Collins, January 1, 2001.

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

  James C. Collins

  Goal, Understanding, Strategy

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• Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

  Fred Brooks

  Moving, Average, Design

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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.

  James C. Collins

  Keys, Order, People

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• 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.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Passion, Keys

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• If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

  Thomston

  Song, Thinking, Would Be

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• In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results. Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.

  James C. Collins

  Organization, Ironic, Lasts

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