A Company Should Limit Its Growth Based

Comparison, A Great Teacher Once Told Me, Is The Cardinal Sin Of Modern Life. It Traps Us In A Game That We Can't Win. Once We Define Ourselves In Terms Of Others, We Lose The Freedom To Shape Our Own Lives.

Be Rigorous About Your Hr Decisions. There Is A Difference Between Rigorous And Ruthless.

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.

Perhaps Your Quest To Be Part Of Building Something Great Will Not Fall In Your Business Life. But Find It Somewhere. If Not In Corporate Life, Then Perhaps In Making Your Church Great. If Not There, Then Perhaps A Nonprofit, Or A Community Organization, Or A Class You Teach. Get Involved In Something That You Care So Much About That You Want To Make It The Greatest It Can Possibly Be, Not Because Of What You Will Get, But Just Because It Can Be Done.

It's More Important Than Ever To Define Yourself In Terms Of What You Stand For Rather Than What You Make, Because What You Make Is Going To Become Outmoded Faster Than It Has At Any Time In The Past. ...hang On To The Idea Of Who You Are As A Company, And Focus Not On What You Do, But On What You Could Do. By Being Really Clear About What You Stand For And Why You Exist, You Can See What You Could Do With A Much More Open Mind. You Enhance Your Ability To Adapt To Change.