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Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?

James C. Collins

If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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
You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That’s how real a dream can be and should be)
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Anthem Olympic Played Podium Standing
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
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
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
Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.
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Financial Midst Opportunity
Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.
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Blood Oxygen Water
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 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
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
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
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 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 can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes

Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?

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