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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.

James C. Collins

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
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.
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Done Involved Involves Possibly Something
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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Built Company Enduring Great Results
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.
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Business Company Great Markets People Technology
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
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
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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Humility Leadership Success
There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, “We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.”
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Giving Life Motivational
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.’s all grown from the inside – well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
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Keys Reason Why Vision

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