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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

James C. Collins

People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
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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Dream Morning Success
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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
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
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
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
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
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.
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Business Company Great Markets People Technology
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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?
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Opportunity People Thinking
A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
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Balance Change Vision

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