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Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

James C. Collins

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
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
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
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
…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
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
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
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Ideas Liability People Personality
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever.
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Communication Fundamentals Important
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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Creative Impact Nice
Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose AND profit, continuity AND change, freedom AND responsibility, etc.
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Business Numbers Responsibility
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
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

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