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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.

James C. Collins

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
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
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
Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.
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Done Involved Involves Possibly Something
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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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Passion Retirement Sweet
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between preserving a tightly held core ideology and stimulating vigorous change and movement; it does both to an extreme.
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Change Extreme Stimulating Visionary
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don’t need them.
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Leader Needs Organization
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
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new ‘program’ to introduce. No!
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Commitment Fashion Organization
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
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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