Good to Great and the Social Sectors Quotes

“If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.”
― Jim Collins, Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

“A culture of discipline is not a principle of business; it is a principle of greatness.”
― Jim Collins, Good To Great And The Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

“Greatness is an inherently dynamic process, not an end point. The moment you think of yourself as great, your slide toward mediocrity will have already begun.”
― James C. Collins, Good To Great And The Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

“The comparison companies in our research—those that failed to become great—placed greater emphasis on using incentives to “motivate” otherwise unmotivated or undisciplined people. The great companies, in contrast, focused on getting and hanging on to the right people in the first place—those who are productively neurotic, those who are self-motivated and self-disciplined, those who wake up every day, compulsively driven to do the best they can because it is simply part of their DNA.”
― James C. Collins, Good To Great And The Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great

“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, Good To Great And The Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great