A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
JAMES C. COLLINS…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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Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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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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…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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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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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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If I were running a company today, I would have one priority above all others: to acquire as many of the best people as I could. I’d put off everything else to fill my bus. Because things are going to come back. My flywheel is going to start to turn.
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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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It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don’t you invest more time being interested?” Collin’s advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.
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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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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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In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results.
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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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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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