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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.

James C. Collins

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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Faith Perseverance Reality
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
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes
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
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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
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
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.
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Ascribing Guest Personal Preparations Success Yet
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
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It’s the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it’s the last thing you picture before you fall asleep.
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Dream Morning Success
We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.
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Book Corporate Greatness Strategy War
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without

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