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The image carries an order of operations, so it does more than illustrate a general preference for good colleagues.
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.
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