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I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.

James C. Collins

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
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.
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Business Company Great Markets People Technology
Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.
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Business Numbers Responsibility
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
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
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
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
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
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three

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