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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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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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Businessperson
Journalist
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Colorado
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True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.
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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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The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.
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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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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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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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Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
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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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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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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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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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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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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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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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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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Get keep right people.
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I am completely Socratic.
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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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