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You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That’s how real a dream can be and should be)

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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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Creative Impact Nice
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.
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Financial Midst Opportunity
In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results.
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Ironic Lasts Organization
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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Commitment Fashion Organization
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
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
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
The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.
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Passion Retirement Sweet
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
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
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
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

You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That’s how real a dream can be and should be)

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You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That’s how real a dream can be and should be)

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