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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!

James C. Collins

Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.
JAMES C. COLLINS

Decision Leadership Needs
If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I’d put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn.
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Business Everything Many Organization Running
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company’s core values), to make the company great.
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Humility Leadership Success
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
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
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
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
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
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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

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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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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