Tag: Good to Great

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great

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

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great

“Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the wrong people. Worse, it can drive away the best people. Strong performers are intrinsically motivated by performance, and when they see their efforts impeded by carrying extra weight, they eventually become frustrated.”

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great

“The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.”

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great

“Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.”