The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
JAMES C. COLLINSThere is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, “We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.”
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Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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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.
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I am completely Socratic.
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The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.
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Discipline is consistency of action.
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You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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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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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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It’s what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you.
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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as “passion” as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.
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