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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
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Businessperson
Journalist
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Boulder
Colorado
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The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.
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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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The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
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It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.
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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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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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If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.
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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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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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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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Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.
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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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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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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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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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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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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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