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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

James C. Collins

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.
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Building Eternal Organisation Process Stimulate
Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new ‘program’ to introduce. No!
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Commitment Fashion Organization
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.
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Decision Leadership Needs
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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Every Time Filled Seems Think
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.
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Financial Midst Opportunity
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
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Ideas Liability People Personality
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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Decision Leadership Organization
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
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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Blood Oxygen Water

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