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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

The inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment – you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out.
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Letting Go Mean Pain
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
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
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
Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.
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Ascribing Guest Personal Preparations Success Yet
The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.
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Challenges Endure Entrepreneurs
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.
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Passion Retirement Sweet
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
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
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Balance Change Vision
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
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Keys Order People Point Second
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until

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