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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.

James C. Collins

…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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Believe Business Greatness
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
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
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 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
We must reject the idea… Well-intentioned, but dead wrong… That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become “more like a business.” Most businesses… Like most of anything else in life… Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.
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Business Fall Greatness
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
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
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
Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.
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Blood Oxygen Water
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
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People

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