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Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.

James C. Collins

Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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Every Time Filled Seems Think
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.’s all grown from the inside – well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
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Keys Reason Why Vision
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
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
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
…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
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
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
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
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
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
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
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

Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.

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