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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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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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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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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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If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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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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Get keep right people.
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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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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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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.
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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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You can't manufacture passion or motivate people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.
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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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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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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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The inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment - you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out. Failure means making a decision to let go, to be less than 100% committed, when confronted by fear, pain and uncertainty.
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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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