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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

An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
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
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
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
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
First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn’t the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.
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Ideas Important Product Team
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
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
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 absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
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

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