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“Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems. In”
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't

“A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.) 2.”
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't

“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. Waiting”
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't

“Pitney’s first management meeting of the new year typically consisted of about fifteen minutes discussing the previous year (almost always superb results) and two hours talking about the “scary squiggly things” that might impede future results.28 Pitney Bowes sales meetings were quite different from the “aren’t we great” rah-rah sales conferences typical at most companies: The entire management team would lay itself open to searing questions and challenges from salespeople who dealt directly with customers.29”
― James C. Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't