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True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

James C. Collins

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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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Businessperson
Journalist
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Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.
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Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.
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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results. Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
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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.
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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
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It's what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you.
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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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Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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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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Get keep right people.
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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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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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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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