There are no magic potions. There are no work-arounds. To build a visionary company, you've got to be ready for the long, hard pull. Success is never final. And institutions have this great tendency to fade into irrelevance.
Movements become monuments.
Inspiration becomes institution. The tragedy of this often-repeated story is that the older an organization gets, the less room there is for the entrepreneuarially gifted. Mavericks are messy by nature, and calcified organizations chew them up and spit them out with their rigidity . . . Overmanaging is one of the greatest sins of leadership. We must be careful not to mirco-manage people to death.