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If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.

James C. Collins

If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
JAMES C. COLLINS

Consciousness Priorities Three
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 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
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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Advice Heart Interesting
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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Every Time Filled Seems Think
First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn’t the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.
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Ideas Important Product Team
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
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
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.
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Building Eternal Organisation Process Stimulate
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander

If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.

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