The following are some of the key leadership quotes from the Jim Collins session at Catalyst:
- “The answer is not what happens to you but what are your decisions.”
- “It begins with people. Life is people.”
- “If we get the right ‘whos’ on the bus, we get the right outcomes.”
- “Try to change every ‘what’ to a ‘who'”
- “What distinguishes exceptional leaders? – not charisma or force of personality.”
- “I was just trying to become qualified for the job.” – CEO Darwin Smith
- “It is not about personality, it is about humility.”
- “Humility is burning ambition channelled to do good outside yourself.”
- “Hubris is outrageous arrogance that inflicts suffering on the innocent.”
- “Bad decisions with good intentions are still bad decisions.”
- “Fanatic Discipline…self-control in an out of control world.”
- “Empirical Creativity…marry creativity to empirical practicality.”
- “True innovation comes from empirical creativity.”
- “The only mistakes you learn from are ones you survive.”
- “The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.”
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