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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.

James C. Collins

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
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
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
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
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
Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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Creative Impact Nice
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.
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Business Mistake People
A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
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Balance Change Vision
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
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
Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.
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Ascribing Guest Personal Preparations Success Yet
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
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
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic

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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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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