We must reject the idea… Well-intentioned, but dead wrong… That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become “more like a business.” Most businesses… Like most of anything else in life… Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.
JAMES C. COLLINSI am completely Socratic.
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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new ‘program’ to introduce. No!
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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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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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Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.
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In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results.
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Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
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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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I am completely Socratic.
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Discipline is consistency of action.
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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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