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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.

James C. Collins

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
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
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
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will.
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Business Humility Leadership
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
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 only acceptable goals are measurable,” but that’s actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you’re making progress.
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Able Goals Quantifiable Statements Undisciplined
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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
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
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
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

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