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If you have more than three priorities then you don’t have any.

James C. Collins

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
The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
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Keys Order People Point Second
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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Company Continuity Great Tension
An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Great Organization People Without
Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will.
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Business Humility Leadership
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Company Firsts Should
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
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
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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Firsts Management Mediocrity
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
The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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Learn Mistakes Survive
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
Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail:
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Every Time Filled Seems Think
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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Financial Midst Opportunity
I’ve never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity.
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Decision Leadership Organization
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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Book Corporate Greatness Strategy War

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