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Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will.

James C. Collins

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
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes
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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Business Keys Passion
The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company’s core values), to make the company great.
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Humility Leadership Success
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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Challenges Endure Entrepreneurs
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
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Built Company Enduring Great Results
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.
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Ascribing Guest Personal Preparations Success Yet
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
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
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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Needs People Strong
If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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Average Finished Pages Text
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated

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