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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.

James C. Collins

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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Great Organization People Without
Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
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Leadership Motivation Organization
First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn’t the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.
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Ideas Important Product Team
It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don’t you invest more time being interested?” Collin’s advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.
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Advice Heart Interesting
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes
You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
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Faith Perseverance Reality
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.
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Failing Prevail World
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth

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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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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