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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

James C. Collins

If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.
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Business Company Great Markets People Technology
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 only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.
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Building Eternal Organisation Process Stimulate
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
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don’t you invest more time being interested?” Collin’s advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.
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Advice Heart Interesting
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
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
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment

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