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James C. Collins

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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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Businessperson
Journalist
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Boulder
Colorado
Simplicity
Profound
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Insight

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Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
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Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.
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It's what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you.
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Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list
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Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
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Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.
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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.
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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.
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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.
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You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
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To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.
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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Growth! is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.
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In determing the right people, the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.
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