Resilency, Not Perfection, Is The Signature Of

We Are Not Imprisoned By Circumstances, Setbacks, Mistakes Or Staggering Defeats, We Are Freed By Our Choices.

Those Who Turn Good Organizations Into Great Organizations Are Motivated By A Deep Creative Urge And An Inner Compulsion For Sheer Unadulterated Excellence For Its Own Sake.

Level 5 Leaders Are Differentiated From Other Levels Of Leaders In That They Have A Wonderful Blend Of Personal Humility Combined With Extraordinary Professional Will. Understand That They Are Very Ambitious; But Their Ambition, First And Foremost, Is For The Company's Success. They Realize That The Most Important Step They Must Make To Become A Level 5 Leader Is To Subjugate Their Ego To The Company's Performance. When Asked For Interviews, These Leaders Will Agree Only If It's About The Company And Not About Them.

All Companies Have A Culture, Some Companies Have Discipline, But Few Companies Have A Culture Of Discipline. When You Have Disciplined People, You Don't Need Hierarchy. When You Have Disciplined Thought, You Don't Need Bureaucracy. When You Have Disciplined Action, You Don' T Need Excessive Controls. When You Combine A Culture Of Discipline With An Ethic Of Entrepreneurship, You Get The Magical Alchemy Of Great Performance.

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.