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If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.

James C. Collins

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
Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.
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Failing Prevail World
If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I’d put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn.
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Business Everything Many Organization Running
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.
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Business Mistake People
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader
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
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
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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Inevitably REquired Rigor Significant
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
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
We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.
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Book Corporate Greatness Strategy War
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
There 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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Giving Life Motivational

If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.

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