The same image distinguishes reassignment from removal
The same image identifies a sequence of actions and is reused to clarify a later decision boundary.
Good to Great
Jim Collins · 41 weeksThe same image distinguishes reassignment from removal
Later in the chapter, Collins uses Gillette and Circuit City accounts to distinguish a capable person in a poorly matched role from a person who should leave. The bus’s seats let him amend an interpretation that would otherwise collapse every personnel problem into removal.
A useful metaphor can become more precise on its return: the later passage adds a decision the first telling left compressed.
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.
Open this chapterWhat this example supports
A useful metaphor can become more precise on its return: the later passage adds a decision the first telling left compressed.
Its limit
The passage is a reported management interpretation, with no independent assessment here of the underlying decisions or their effects.
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 1961–1988. The description is an original editorial paraphrase, not a quotation.
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local electronic-text extraction with a 2001 copyright notice; print pagination and graphical layout not verified