Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.
Get keep right people.
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.
I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?
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.
Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.
Some managers are uncomfotable with expressing emotion about their dreams, but it's the passion and emotion that will attract and motivate others.
To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.
Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.
A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.
If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
