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We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.

James C. Collins

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
The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
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Keys Order People Point Second
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
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
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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Every Time Filled Seems Think
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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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Needs People Strong
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.
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Business Mistake People
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
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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Letting Go Mean Pain
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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Achieve People Way
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
Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will.
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Business Humility Leadership
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic

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