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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.

James C. Collins

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.
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Business Mistake People
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
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
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.
JAMES C. COLLINS

Business Humility Leadership
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
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
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
You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That’s how real a dream can be and should be)
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Anthem Olympic Played Podium Standing
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.
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Building Eternal Organisation Process Stimulate
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn’t the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.
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Ideas Important Product Team
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

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