The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.
JAMES C. COLLINSWhether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.
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Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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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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If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.
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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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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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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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Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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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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I am completely Socratic.
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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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A visionary company doesn’t simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
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If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
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Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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