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James C. Collins

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
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
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
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
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
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
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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Change Extreme Stimulating Visionary
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
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
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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Blood Business Responsibility
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
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
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
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
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.
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Business Humility Leadership

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