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The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.

James C. Collins

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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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Journalist
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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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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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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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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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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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The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
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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 critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.
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The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.
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