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I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.

James C. Collins

Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new ‘program’ to introduce. No!
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Commitment Fashion Organization
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
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
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
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
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
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as “passion” as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.
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Business Keys Passion
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
…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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Believe Business Greatness
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
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.’s all grown from the inside – well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
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Keys Reason Why Vision
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth

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