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Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”

James C. Collins

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader
There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, “We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.”
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Giving Life Motivational
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
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 world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
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
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
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
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
The inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment – you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out.
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Letting Go Mean Pain
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.
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Passion Retirement Sweet
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
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
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander

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