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I am completely Socratic.

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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
Socratic
Completely

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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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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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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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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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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.
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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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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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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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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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Indeed, the real question is not, Why greatness? but What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness? if you have to ask the question, Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough? then you're probably int he wrong line of work.
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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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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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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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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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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.
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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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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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