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

James C. Collins

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
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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Needs People Strong
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
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
You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
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Faith Perseverance Reality
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
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
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
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
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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Done Involved Involves Possibly Something
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
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
…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

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

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