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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

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
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
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
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
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Business Discipline Purpose
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
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
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
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Curiosity Unleashed Wander
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
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
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
Discipline is consistency of action.
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Action Consistency Discipline
You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
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Faith Perseverance Reality
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs

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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