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James C. Collins

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
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
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
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
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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Decision Leadership Needs
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
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Every Time Filled Seems Think
Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.
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Inevitably REquired Rigor Significant
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.
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Challenges Endure Entrepreneurs
There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, “We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.”
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Giving Life Motivational
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
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

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