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

James C. Collins

We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes
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
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
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.
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Business Numbers Responsibility
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
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Keys Order People Point Second
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
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
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
Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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Creative Impact Nice
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
The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
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Achieve People Way
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization

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