Discipline is consistency of action.
JAMES C. COLLINSTo have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.’s all grown from the inside – well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
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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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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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Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.’s all grown from the inside – well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
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I am completely Socratic.
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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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…the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you’re doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It’s just a given.
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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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We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.
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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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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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