A company can offer employees generous compensation, benefits, and extras like health clubs and daycare centers and still lose their best workers. What many otherwise excellent companies miss, according to the authors, is that one mediocre manager can wreak havoc in even the best organization and send the most talented employees running for the exits. Have an unflinching, clear-eyed vision of the goal, followed by absolute clarity, realism and objectivity about what it really will take to grow, to lead and to win. Understand that the only limits that really matter are those you put on yourself, or that a business puts on itself. Most people and businesses are capable of far more than they realize.
Most great wins happen on the last play.
Love what you do. Success requires passion. Every experience in life, whether humble or grand, teaches a lesson. The question is not if the lesson is taught, but rather if it is learned. The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania .