In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
JAMES C. COLLINSI can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.
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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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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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You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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We must reject the idea… Well-intentioned, but dead wrong… That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become “more like a business.” Most businesses… Like most of anything else in life… Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.
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Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It’s the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it’s the last thing you picture before you fall asleep.
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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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I am completely Socratic.
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Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
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The inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment – you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out.
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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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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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