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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

James C. Collins

We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
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
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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
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
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
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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Done Involved Involves Possibly Something
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
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
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
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
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new ‘program’ to introduce. No!
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Commitment Fashion Organization
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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Book Corporate Greatness Strategy War

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