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

James C. Collins

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
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
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
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Achieve People Way
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
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
Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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Every Time Filled Seems Think
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
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
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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Ironic Lasts Organization
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
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
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
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should

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

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