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James C. Collins

The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.
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Challenges Endure Entrepreneurs
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
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
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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Choices Defeat Mistakes
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
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
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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Marketing Mediocrity Motivated
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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Keys Reason Why Vision
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
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

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