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James C. Collins

Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
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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Failing Prevail World
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
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
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
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
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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Ascribing Guest Personal Preparations Success Yet
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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Needs People Strong
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
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
You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That’s how real a dream can be and should be)
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Anthem Olympic Played Podium Standing
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
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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Building Eternal Organisation Process Stimulate
The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
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Achieve People Way
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader

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