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If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.

James C. Collins

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
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
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
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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
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
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
I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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Decision Leadership Organization

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