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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.

James C. Collins

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
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
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.
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Business Fall Greatness
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 only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It’s the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it’s the last thing you picture before you fall asleep.
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Dream Morning Success
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
…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
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’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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