Tag: Great Quotes
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This is why visionary companies stand out
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great “Visionary companies are so clear about what they stand for and what they’re trying to achieve that they simply don’t have room for those unwilling or unable to fit their exacting standards.”
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This is when a person’s CHARISMA becomes a liability
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great “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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This is what separates the GOOD people from the BEST
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book “good to great” “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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This educates us on the need of a proper hiring process
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great “The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.”
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Want to nurture a good work environment? This tip will help
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great “Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the wrong people. Worse, it can drive away the best people. Strong performers are intrinsically motivated…
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GREATNESS is a function of this
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline”
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This is why BUREAUCRACY kills creativity
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great “The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.”
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This is why GOOD is the biggest enemy of GREAT
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great “Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally…
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When an idea has this ingredient it is sure to stand out
Adopted from the following great insight shared by Seth Godin from his book Tribes “In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn’t necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.”
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Right from the caveman times this leadership philosophy has not changed
Adopted from the following great insight shared Seth Godin from his book Tribes “A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be…