We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
JAMES C. COLLINSA 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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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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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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I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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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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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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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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…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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Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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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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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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