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.
JAMES C. COLLINSWe 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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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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Creative leadership impact increases in your 50’s. When I turn 50 I want to say, “Nice start!”
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First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn’t the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.
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We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.
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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity…are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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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.
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Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.
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I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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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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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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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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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?
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Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.
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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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