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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.

James C. Collins

An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
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
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
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Ideas Liability People Personality
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
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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
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
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
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
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
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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important

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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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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