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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

James C. Collins

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
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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Average Finished Pages Text
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
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
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
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
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.
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Failing Prevail World
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
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
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
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
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive

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