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

James C. Collins

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
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
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
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
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will.
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Business Humility Leadership
…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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Believe Business Greatness
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
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
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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Opportunity People Thinking
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
I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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Decision Leadership Organization
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.
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Change Extreme Stimulating Visionary

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

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