A Dream Is A Feeling That Sticks

The Best Ceos In Our Research Display Tremendous Ambition For Their Company Combined With The Stoic Will To Do Whatever It Takes, No Matter How Brutal (within The Bounds Of The Company's Core Values), To Make The Company Great. Yet At The Same Time They Display A Remarkable Humility About Themselves, Ascribing Much Of Their Own Success To Luck, Discipline And Preparation Rather Than Personal Genius.

Those Who Build And Perpetuate Mediocrity...are Motivated More By The Fear Of Being Left Behind.

Start A 'stop Doing' List. I'll Leave It As An Existential Dilemma On Whether To Put That Task On Your To Do List

We Must Reject The Idea... Well-intentioned, But Dead Wrong... That The Primary Path To Greatness In The Social Sectors Is To Become "more Like A Business." Most Businesses... Like Most Of Anything Else In Life... Fall Somewhere Between Mediocre And Good.

Whether You Prevail Or Fail Depends More On What You Do To Yourself Than On What The World Does To You.