The bus makes the people-before-direction sequence explicit
The same image identifies a sequence of actions and is reused to clarify a later decision boundary.
Good to Great
Jim Collins · 41 weeksThe bus makes the people-before-direction sequence explicit
SHORT SOURCE EXCERPT“first got the right people on the bus (and the wrong people off the bus) and then figured out where to drive it”
The opening reverses the expected vision-first sequence. It gives the bus passengers, seats, and a destination, then explains how selecting people first is supposed to make a later change of direction possible.
The image carries an order of operations, so it does more than illustrate a general preference for good colleagues.
The source in context.
The bus metaphor puts personnel choices ahead of choosing a direction. Company cases lead into practical hiring and assignment distinctions, including the difference between the wrong person and the wrong role.
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The image carries an order of operations, so it does more than illustrate a general preference for good colleagues.
Its limit
The passage states Collins’s proposed sequence; it does not establish that every organization should follow it.
Source & edition
Jim Collins, Good to Great; inspected local source text, local electronic-text extraction with a 2001 copyright notice; print pagination and graphical layout not verified.
Supplied text, lines 1387–1414. The short quotation is checked against the source.
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local electronic-text extraction with a 2001 copyright notice; print pagination and graphical layout not verified