Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
JAMES C. COLLINSGreat companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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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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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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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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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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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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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 turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
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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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A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
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The inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment – you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out.
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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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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 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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Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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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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The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
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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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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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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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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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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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