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

James C. Collins

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
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Leadership Motivation Organization
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
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 only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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Average Finished Pages Text
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
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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Dream Morning Success
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as “passion” as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.
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Business Keys Passion
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
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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Built Company Enduring Great Results
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

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