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Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great

“What separates people, Stockdale taught me, is not the presence or absence of difficulty, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life.”

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great

“The good-to-great leaders never wanted to become larger-than-life heroes. They never aspired to be put on a pedestal or become unreachable icons. They were seemingly ordinary people quietly producing extraordinary results.”

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great

“When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life”

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great

“Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. The management team”

Adopted from the following great insight shared by Jim Collins from the book Good to Great

“Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. The management team”

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.”

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 by performance, and when they see their efforts impeded by carrying extra weight, they eventually become frustrated.”

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”

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 because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.”