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“You get the best people, you build them into the best managers in the industry, and you accept the fact that some of them will be recruited to become CEOs of other companies.”
― Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
― Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
“Could we perhaps be rearing a generation that might not be tough enough to be good Americans? For a good American needs to be tough.”
― The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
― The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
“That said, however, we did notice one particularly provocative form of economic insight that every good-to-great company attained, the notion of a single “economic denominator.” Think about it in terms of the following question: If you could pick one and only one ratio—profit per x (or, in the social sector, cash flow per x)—to systematically increase over time, what x would have the greatest and most sustainable impact on your economic engine? We learned that this single question leads to profound insight into the inner workings of an organization’s economics.”
― Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
― Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
“It is not only the content of a book that changes you but the shared community with those who have read it, discussed it, argued about it.”
― The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
― The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
“Throughout our research, we were continually reminded of the “hardiness” research studies done by the International Committee for the Study of Victimization. These studies looked at people who had suffered serious adversity—cancer patients, prisoners of war, accident victims, and so forth—and survived. They found that people fell generally into three categories: those who were permanently dispirited by the event, those who got their life back to normal, and those who used the experience as a defining event that made them stronger.53 The good-to-great companies were like those in the third group, with the “hardiness factor.”
― Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
― Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't
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