Discipline Should Amplify Creativity Rather Than Stifle

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.

A Great Company Will Have Many Once-in-a-liftetime Opportunities.

Great Companies Foster A Productive Tension Between Continuity And Change.

Genius Of And. Embrace Both Extremes On A Number Of Dimensions At The Same Time. Instead Of Choosing A Or B, Figure Out How To Have A And B-purpose And Profit, Continuity And Change, Freedom And Responsibility, Etc.

Not All Time In Life Is Equal. How Many Opportunities Do You Get To Talk About What Your Life Is Going To Add Up To With People Thinking About The Same Question?