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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

James C. Collins

The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
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
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
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
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
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
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
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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Blood Business Responsibility
…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
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
The only acceptable goals are measurable,” but that’s actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you’re making progress.
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Able Goals Quantifiable Statements Undisciplined
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
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People

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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