Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness..

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?.

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

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 te….

Don't take care of your career. Take care of your people. They will take care of your career..

The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desir….

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definiti….

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best..

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

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change..

Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to have A AND B-purpose A….

Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary ….

If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader..

Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the sa….

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy..

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity..

Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" if you have to ask the questi….

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you..

It is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes..

Greatest danger is not failure, but be successful and not know why..

You must ask, "What do we mean by great results?" Your goals don't have to be quantifiable, but they do have to be describable. Some leaders try to i….