Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
JAMES C. COLLINSA visionary company doesn’t simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.
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I am completely Socratic.
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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.
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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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If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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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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Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
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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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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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Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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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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If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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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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No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It’s the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it’s the last thing you picture before you fall asleep.
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