“Then it began to dawn on us: There was no miracle moment. Although it may have looked like a single-stroke breakthrough to those peering in from the outside, it was anything but that to people experiencing transformation from within. Rather, it was a quiet, deliberate process of figuring out what needed to be done to create the best future results and then simply taking those steps, one after the other, turn by turn of the flywheel. After pushing on that flywheel in a consistent direction over an extended period of time, they'd inevitably hit a point of breakthrough.” SuccessVictoryPersistenceBreakthroughSteadfastness Book:Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't Source: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
“Big things happen because you do a lot of small things supremely well and they compound over time.” PatienceBig ThingsSmall StepsPersistence Action Book:Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't Source: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
“You can be profitable and bankrupt” ProfitableBankrupt Book:[How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In] [By: Collins, Jim] [June, 2009] Source: [How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In] [By: Collins, Jim] [June, 2009]
“In no case do we have a company that just happened to be sitting on the nose cone of a rocket when it took off.” Good To Great Author:Jim Collins
“We were surprised, shocked really, to discover the type of leadership required for turning a good company into a great one. Compared to high-profile leaders with big personalities who make headlines and become celebrities, the good-to-great leaders seem to have come from Mars. Self-effacing, quiet, reserved, even shy—these leaders are a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will. They are more like Lincoln and Socrates than Patton or Caesar.” Good To Great Author:Jim Collins
“No, they first got the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off the bus) and then figured out where to drive it.” LeadershipGood To Great Author:Jim Collins
“Paradox: 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,” Good To Great Author:Jim Collins
“Our study clearly shows that a company does not need to be in a great industry to become a great company. Each good-to-great company built a fabulous economic engine, regardless of the industry. They were able to do this because they attained profound insights into their economics.” Good To GreatBusiness TacticsEconomic Engine Author:Jim Collins