Those Who Turn Good Organizations Into Great

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.

Level 5 Leaders Are Fanatically Driven, Infected With An Incurable Need To Produce Sustained Results. They Are Resolved To Do Whatever It Takes To Make The Company Great, No Matter How Big Or Hard The Decisions.

If I'm Going Really, Really Fast, I Can Do A Page Of Finished Text A Day, On Average.

It Is More Important To Know Who You Are Than Where You Are Going, For Where You Are Going Will Change As The World Around You Changes.

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.