QuoteProject
Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats...
James C. Collins
ShareWTF𝕏

Interpretation

What this quote means

Assemble a strong team and ensure everyone is in the appropriate position to succeed.

This quote emphasizes the importance of having the correct individuals in key roles within a team or organization. By selecting the right people, removing those who do not align with the goals, and placing everyone in suitable positions, a leader significantly enhances the chances of success and harmony in reaching objectives.

Themes

TeamworkLeadershipSuccessOrganizationCollaboration

In practice

Example use cases

In a business meeting discussing the new project team structure.

More from James C. Collins

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
James C. CollinsRead
The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.
James C. CollinsRead
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. CollinsRead
...the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It's just a given.
James C. CollinsRead
It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as "passion" as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.
James C. CollinsRead
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.
James C. CollinsRead

Similar quotes

Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.
Peter DruckerRead
Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.
Howard SchultzRead
To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
William HazlittRead
This is why, as a prime minister of Israel, I can promise you one more thing: Even if Israel has to stand alone, Israel will stand. But I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.
Benjamin NetanyahuRead
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston ChurchillRead
Engagement and integrity are the two most fundamental aspects of building trust; lead from the front by evolving your company strategy, then live your values every day.
Richard EdelmanRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.