The bad news is that creating a visionary company requires huge quantities of good old-fashioned hard work, dedication to improvement, and continually building for the future. There are no shortcuts. 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 . . .