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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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It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested? Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.
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Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.
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You can't manufacture passion or motivate people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.
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The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
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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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The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.
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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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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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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.
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It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.
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Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.
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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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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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The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
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Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.
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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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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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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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