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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
James C. Collins
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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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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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The essence of profound insight is simplicity.
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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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We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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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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The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.
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The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.
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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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I am completely Socratic.
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Get keep right people.
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Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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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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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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Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.
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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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The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.
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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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Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
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