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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.

James C. Collins

No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It’s the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it’s the last thing you picture before you fall asleep.
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Dream Morning Success
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will.
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Business Humility Leadership
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
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
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader
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
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company’s core values), to make the company great.
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Humility Leadership Success
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
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
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

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