A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.

An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.

It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

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.

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.

I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?