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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
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Simplicity
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How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.
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The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.
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Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.
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The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
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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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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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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
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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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If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.
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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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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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In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life
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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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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results. Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
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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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The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.
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I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results.
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If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.
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