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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.

James C. Collins

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James C. Collins
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 25
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I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.
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The essence of profound insight is simplicity.
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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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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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Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.
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I am completely Socratic.
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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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The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.
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Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.
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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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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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Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.
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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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