GOOD TO GREAT/COLLINS 125-126

126 Disciplined people. The transition begins not by trying to discipline the wrong people into the right behaviors, but by getting self-disciplined people on the bus in the first place. Next we have disciplined thought. You need the discipline to confront the brutal facts of reality, while retaining resolute faith that you can and will create a path to greatness. Most importantly, you need the discipline to persist in the search for understanding until you get your Hedgehog Concept: Finally, we have discipline action. The comparison companies often tried to jump right to disciplined action. But disciplined action without self-disciplined people is impossible to sustain, and disciplined action without disciplined thought is a recipe for disaster.

...the point is to first get self-disciplined people who engage in very rigorous thinking, who then take disciplined action within the framework of consistent system designed around the Hedgehog Concept.