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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.
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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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Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.
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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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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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Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.
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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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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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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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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.
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Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.
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Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.
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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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True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.
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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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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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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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