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The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.

James C. Collins

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
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
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
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
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
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
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
Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.
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Done Involved Involves Possibly Something
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.
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Financial Midst Opportunity
Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.
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Inevitably REquired Rigor Significant
If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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Average Finished Pages Text
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic

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