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It’s what you do before you are in trouble, so that you can be strong when people most need you.

James C. Collins

Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
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
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
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
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
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
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
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
Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.
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Blood Oxygen Water
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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Inevitably REquired Rigor Significant
If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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Average Finished Pages Text
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
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.
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Business Mistake People
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
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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Anthem Olympic Played Podium Standing

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