Those Who Turn Good Organizations Into Great

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

If I Were Running A Company Today, I Would Have One Priority Above All Others: To Acquire As Many Of The Best People As I Could. I'd Put Off Everything Else To Fill My Bus. Because Things Are Going To Come Back. My Flywheel Is Going To Start To Turn. And The Single Biggest Constraint On The Success Of My Organization Is The Ability To Get And To Hang On To Enough Of The Right People.

In Determing "the Right People," The Good-to-great Companies Placed Greater Weight On Character Attributes Than On Specific Educational Background, Practical Skills, Specialized Knowledge, Or Work Experience.

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.

Not One Of The Good-to-great Companies Focused Obsessively On Growth.