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

James C. Collins

Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.
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Inevitably REquired Rigor Significant
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
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
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
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
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
A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
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Balance Change Vision
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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Every Time Filled Seems Think
Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.
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Financial Midst Opportunity
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

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