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

James C. Collins

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
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
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 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
In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life
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Blood Business Responsibility
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
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
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.’s all grown from the inside – well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
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Keys Reason Why Vision
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
…the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you’re doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It’s just a given.
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Believe Business Greatness
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
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Ideas Liability People Personality
Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.
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Decision Leadership Needs
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic

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