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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.

James C. Collins

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
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
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
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
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as “passion” as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.
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Business Keys Passion
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
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
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
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important

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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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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