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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

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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Average Definitions Good Great
If you have a charismatic cause you don’t need to be a charismatic leader.
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Causes Leader Needs
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
Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
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Built Company Enduring Great Results
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
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Differences Greatness Leader
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
Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.
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Business Good Great Growth
People are not your most important asset….the right people are.
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Good Great Important People
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
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
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
Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.
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Creativity Dies Environment
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
No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It’s the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it’s the last thing you picture before you fall asleep.
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Dream Morning Success
Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
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Leadership Motivation Organization

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