The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
JAMES C. COLLINSEverytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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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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Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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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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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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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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Discipline is consistency of action.
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If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
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Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.
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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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I am completely Socratic.
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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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