Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.
JAMES C. COLLINSOur 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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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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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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If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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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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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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I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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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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A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
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I am completely Socratic.
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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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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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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.
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Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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