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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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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If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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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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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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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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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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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
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The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company’s core values), to make the company great.
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I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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