Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
JAMES C. COLLINSThe only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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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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Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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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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The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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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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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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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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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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If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Discipline is consistency of action.
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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
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