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

James C. Collins

The only acceptable goals are measurable,” but that’s actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you’re making progress.
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Able Goals Quantifiable Statements Undisciplined
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader
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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Commitment Fashion Organization
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
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Ideas Liability People Personality
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
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
If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I’d put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn.
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Business Everything Many Organization Running
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.
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Business Mistake People
If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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