With Apologies to Jim Collins

Let's be clear. I am a huge fan of the best-seller business book, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't, by Jim Collins.

I'd like to think that I am a Hedgehog that stays busy trying to turn the company flywheel.

And I am generally good with incremental technology as a solution.

It's the whole "bus" thing that bothers me. At least part of it. The overall theme, "...get the right people on the bus, and the wrong people off the bus" is sound.

But the more I think about it (could I be a bit analytical here?), it's the visual image of the bus itself that is a bit annoying. After all, what is a bus? It's a large vehicle with many seats for passengers, and a driver.

Think about that. The passengers RIDE wherever the DRIVER is going. They do nothing to assist the driver in getting there. They RIDE.

We all know that business is a team sport. So I was thinking that in a future printing, maybe Mr. Collins might consider changing "on and off the bus" to something with a more productive image, say....a dragon boat.

You get the idea.