If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
JAMES C. COLLINSConsider 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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Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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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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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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…the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you’re doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It’s just a given.
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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It’s the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it’s the last thing you picture before you fall asleep.
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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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The only acceptable goals are measurable,” but that’s actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you’re making progress.
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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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Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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We must reject the idea… Well-intentioned, but dead wrong… That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become “more like a business.” Most businesses… Like most of anything else in life… Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.
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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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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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Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don’t you invest more time being interested?” Collin’s advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.
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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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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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I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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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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You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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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.
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If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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