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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

People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
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
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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
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
You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
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Faith Perseverance Reality
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
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
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
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 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
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
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
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

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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