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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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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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We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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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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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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True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.
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It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.
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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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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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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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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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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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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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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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Indeed, the real question is not, Why greatness? but What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness? if you have to ask the question, Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough? then you're probably int he wrong line of work.
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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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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
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The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.
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I am completely Socratic.
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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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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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