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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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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
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
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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Leadership Motivation Organization
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
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
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
Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.
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Business Numbers Responsibility
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.
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Passion Retirement Sweet
I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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Decision Leadership Organization
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
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Built Company Enduring Great Results
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People

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