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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

James C. Collins

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.
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Letting Go Mean Pain
Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
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Leadership Motivation Organization
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
…the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you’re doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It’s just a given.
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Believe Business Greatness
Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.
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Done Involved Involves Possibly Something
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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Achieve People Way
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.
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Ironic Lasts Organization
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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Average Finished Pages Text
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will.
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Business Humility Leadership

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