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The essence of greatness is more than talent or skill.
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219 |
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Teach. The greatest gift you can give is your knowledge. Teaching does the marketing for you when you do it well.
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193 |
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If companies… once the unquestioned champions in their fields, can plummet from great to irrelevant, then we should be wary about our own success.
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008 |
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…just as great companies can topple, some rise again.
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014 |
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Great companies can become insulated by success; accumulated momentum can carry and enterprise forward, for a while, even if its leaders make poor decisions or lose discipline.
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020 |
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…great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
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036 |
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The greatest leaders do seek growth – growth in performance, growth in distinctive impact, growth in creativity, growth in people – but they do not succumb to growth that undermines long-term value.
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054 |
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…if a great company consistently grows revenues faster than its ability to get enough of the right people to implement that growth, it will not simply stagnate; it will fail.
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056 |
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…rebuilding greatness requires a series of intelligent, well-executed actions that add up one on top of another.
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094 |
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…research into what it takes to prevail in a turbulent environment… shows a distinct negative correlation between building great companies and going outside for a CEO.
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095 |
