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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
Author
Businessperson
Journalist
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Boulder
Colorado
Obsessively
Companies
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Growth
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Business
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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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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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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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Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
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The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.
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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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Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.
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I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.
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If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.
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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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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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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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I am completely Socratic.
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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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