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Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

James C. Collins

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.
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Building Eternal Organisation Process Stimulate
In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life
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Blood Business Responsibility
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
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake. The best people don’t need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.
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Business Mistake People
Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
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Built Company Enduring Great Results
It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as “passion” as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.
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Business Keys Passion
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
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
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment

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