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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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To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
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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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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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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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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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How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.
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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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Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
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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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If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.
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The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.
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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
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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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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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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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Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.
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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 great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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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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