Change Your Practices Without Abandoning Your Core

For No Matter What We Achieve, If We Don't Spend The Vast Majority Of Our Time With People We Love And Respect, We Cannot Possibly Have A Great Life. But If We Spend The Vast Majority Of Our Time With People We Love And Respect - People We Really Enjoy Being On The Bus With And Who Will Never Disappoint Us - Then We Will Almost Certainly Have A Great Life, No Matter Where The Bus Goes. The People We Interviewed From The Good-to-great Companies Clearly Loved What They Did, Largely Because They Loved Who They Did It With.

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.

It Occurs To Me,jim,that You Spend Too Much Time Trying To Be Interesting. Why Don't You Invest More Time Being Interested?" Collin's Advice From John Gardner That He Took To Heart.

The Start Of The New Year Is A Perfect Time To Start A Stop Doing List And To Make This The Cornerstone Of Your New Year Resolutions, Be It For Your Company, Your Family Or Yourself. It Also Is A Perfect Time To Clarify Your Three Circles, Mirroring At A Personal Level The Three Questions... 1) What Are You Deeply Passionate About? 2) What Are You Are Genetically Encoded For - What Activities Do You Feel Just "made To Do"? 3) What Makes Economic Sense - What Can You Make A Living At?

If We Allow The Celebrity Rock-star Model Of Leadership To Triumph, We Will See The Decline Of Corporations And Institutions Of All Types. The Twentieth Century Was A Century Of Greatness, But We Face The Very Real Prospect That The Next Century Will See Very Few Enduring Great Institutions.