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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.

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
Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
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Leadership Motivation Organization
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.
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Done Involved Involves Possibly Something
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
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
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
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
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
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
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
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
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

An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.

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