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The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.

James C. Collins

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.
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Passion Retirement Sweet
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
The only acceptable goals are measurable,” but that’s actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you’re making progress.
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Able Goals Quantifiable Statements Undisciplined
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
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
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
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Ideas Liability People Personality
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
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results.
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Ironic Lasts Organization
You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
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Faith Perseverance Reality
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
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose

The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.

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