The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate
for incompetence and lack of discipline.
~ Jim Collins
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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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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.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
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Level 5 leaders embody a paradoxical mix of personal humility and professional will. They are ambitious, to be sure, but ambitious first and foremost for the company, not themselves.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great