James C. Collins Quotes About Management

Quotes about: Management

• If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.

  James C. Collins

  Stars, Real, Greatness

• Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.

  James C. Collins

  Smart, Self, People

• In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

  James C. Collins

  Business, Responsibility, Blood

• Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

  James C. Collins

  Mediocrity, Firsts, Management

• The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.

  James C. Collins

  People, Leader, Transition

  "Good to Great". Book by James C. Collins, 2001.

• Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new 'program' to introduce. No! The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.

  James C. Collins

  Fashion, Commitment, Organization

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