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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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How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.
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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 essence of profound insight is simplicity.
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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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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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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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There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.
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If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.
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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can't manufacture passion or motivate people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.
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True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.
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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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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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