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It May Seem Odd To Talk About Something As Soft And Fuzzy As "passion" As An Integral Part Of A Strategic Framework. But Throughout The Good-to-great Companies, Passion Became A Key Part Of The Hedgehog Concept.

Dreams Make You Click, Juice You, Turn You On, Excite The Living Daylights Out Of You. You Cannot Wait To Get Out Of Bed To Continue Pursuing Your Dream. The Kind Of Dream I'm Talking About Gives Meaning To Your Life. It Is The Ultimate Motivator.

Profit Is Like Oxygen, Food, Water, And Blood For The Body; They Are Not The Point Of Life, But Without Them, There Is No Life.

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.

Our Findings Do Not Represent A Quick Fix, Or The Next Fashion Statement In A Long String Of Management Fads, Or The Next Buzzword Of The Day, Or A New 'program' To Introduce. No! The Only Way To Make Any Company Visionary Is Through A Long-term Commitment To An Eternal Process Of Building The Organization To Preserve The Core And Stimulate Progress.