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Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.

James C. Collins

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
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.
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Business Mistake People
Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.
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Ascribing Guest Personal Preparations Success Yet
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
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
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
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
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

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