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James C. Collins

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.
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Letting Go Mean Pain
In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life
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Blood Business Responsibility
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Business Company Great Opportunity
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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Every Time Filled Seems Think
Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Decision Good Great Intentions
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
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
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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Advice Heart Interesting
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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Ironic Lasts Organization
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
We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.
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Book Corporate Greatness Strategy War
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great

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