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Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless. To quickly grasp this concept, think of United States
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Stop doing" lists are more important than"to do" lists.
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We did not begin this project with a theory to test or prove. We sought to build a theory from the ground up, derived directly from the evidence.
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In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job.
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True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.
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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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Discipline should amplify creativity rather than stifle it.
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You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.
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The Marine Corps recruits people who share the corps' values, then provides them with the training required to
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If you have the right people, they will be self-motivated.
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Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.
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You need self-control in an out-of-control world.
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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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Get the right people on the bus and in the right seat.
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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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It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.
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How can we do better tomorrow than we did today?
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How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.
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If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?
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Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.
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It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.
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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
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A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
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Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.
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Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why.
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Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.
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Lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough.
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The greatest leaders build organizations that, in the end, don't need them.
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If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.
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A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.
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What we did was so simple, and we kept it simple. It
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I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?
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The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.
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Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.
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Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.
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Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.
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A dream is a feeling that sticks - and propels.
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Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career.
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Tends to rivet our attention on the Icarus companies
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Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.
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Don't be interesting - be interested.
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Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.
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Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great
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but is simplicity enough?
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first who... then what" start-up.
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Reichardt kept people relentlessly focused on the simple hedgehog idea,
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What separates people is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.
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People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals.
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The difficulties, AND at the same time have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
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We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
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One of the most important steps you can take in building a visionary company is not an action, but a shift in perspective.
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Level 5 leaders display a workmanlike diligence - more plow horse than show horse.
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1. Build a culture around the idea of freedom and responsibility, within a framework.
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The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.
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Far more difficult than implementing change is figuring out what works, understanding why it works, grasping when to change, and knowing when not to.
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The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
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My God, these guys don't even know what the return-on-investment will be on this thing.
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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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Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
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Change your practices without abandoning your core values.
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was so straightforward and obvious that it sounds almost ridiculous to talk about it.
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Circles and getting rid of everything else.
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Most men would rather die, than think. Many do.
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What can we do better than any other company in the world, that fits our economic denominator and that we have passion for?
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Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.
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Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
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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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But what I find so striking is their incredible simplicity.
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Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity ... are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
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accomplish the organization's mission.
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You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.
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Good is the enemy of great. And that's one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great.
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It is an understanding of what you can be the best at. The distinction is absolutely crucial.
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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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When you have disciplined people, you don't
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An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.
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Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
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That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.
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doing what you are good at will only make you good;
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Highly undiversified means investing fully in those things that fit squarely within the three
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It's not how you compensate your executives, it's which executives you have to compensate in the first place. If
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The drive for progress doesn't wait for the external world to say "It's time to change."
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by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined
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Put your best people on your biggest opportunities, not your biggest problems. In
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Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list
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Discipline is the greatest thing in the world. Where there is no discipline, there is no character. And without character, there is no progress ...
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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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The world is changing, and will continue to do so. But that does not mean we should stop the search for timeless principles.
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The only mistakes you can learn from are the ones you survive.
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The essence of profound insight is simplicity.
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The only truly reliable source of stability is a strong inner core and the willingness to change and adapt everything except that core.
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Charisma can be as much a liability as an asset, as the strength of your leadership personality can deter people from bringing you the brutal facts.
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People are not your most important asset ... the right people are.
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Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.
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Discipline is consistency of action.
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By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
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