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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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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.
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The essence of profound insight is simplicity.
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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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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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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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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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If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.
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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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Growth! is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.
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Get keep right people.
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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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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.
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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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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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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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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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You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
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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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