The start of the New Year is a perfect time to start a stop doing list and to make this the cornerstone… — James C. Collins Activity Copy Share Image
Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless. — James C. Collins Decision Copy Share Image
The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get. — James C. Collins Choices Copy Share Image
“First, at the top levels of your organization, you absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right… — James C. Collins Discipline Copy Share Image
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity. — James C. Collins Differences Copy Share Image
“to create great results requires a nearly fanatical dedication to the idea of consistency within the Hedgehog Concept.” — James C. Collins Consistency Copy Share Image
“Enduring great companies preserve their core values and purpose while their business strategies and operating practices endlessly adapt to a changing world.… — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
“Those who built the visionary companies wisely understood that it is better to understand who you are than where you are going—for… — James C. Collins Visionary Copy Share Image
“He did not understand—until it was too late—what one university president called the reality of tenured faculty: “A thousand points of no.” — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the… — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless. — James C. Collins Duality Copy Share Image
"Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you… — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem. — James C. Collins Business Copy Share Image
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency. — James C. Collins Consistency Copy Share Image
Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there… — James C. Collins Blood Copy Share Image
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people. — James C. Collins Discipline Copy Share Image
We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to… — James C. Collins Book Copy Share Image
“Core ideology provides the glue that holds an organization together as it grows, decentralizes, diversifies, expands globally, and develops workplace diversity. Think… — James C. Collins Jewish people Copy Share Image
Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to… — James C. Collins Add Copy Share Image
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things. — James C. Collins Consistent Copy Share Image
It's what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you. — James C. Collins Need you Copy Share Image
It's more important than ever to define yourself in terms of what you stand for rather than what you make, because what… — James C. Collins Ability Copy Share Image
In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a… — James C. Collins Built Copy Share Image
