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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.

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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company doesn't simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement it does both to an extreme.
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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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Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.
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Get keep right people.
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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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Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.
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We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become more like a business. Most businesses... Like most of anything else in life... Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.
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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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The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.
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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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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
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If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.
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The inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment - you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out. Failure means making a decision to let go, to be less than 100% committed, when confronted by fear, pain and uncertainty.
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Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.
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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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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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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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Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
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Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
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