Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
JAMES C. COLLINSI’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress.
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If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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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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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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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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Discipline is consistency of action.
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You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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I am completely Socratic.
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To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.’s all grown from the inside – well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
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First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn’t the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.
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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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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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