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Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

James C. Collins

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
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Discipline People Right Until
The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.
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Passion Retirement Sweet
If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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Consciousness Priorities Three
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
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Ideas Liability People Personality
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
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
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader
We must reject the idea… Well-intentioned, but dead wrong… That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become “more like a business.” Most businesses… Like most of anything else in life… Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.
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Business Fall Greatness
I am completely Socratic.
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Completely Emotion Socratic
Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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Core Practice Values
A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
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Balance Change Vision
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
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
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

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