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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

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
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
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.
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Challenges Endure Entrepreneurs
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
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
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?
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Opportunity People Thinking
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.
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Change Extreme Stimulating Visionary
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension

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