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Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that.

Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.

An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. And the people out on the front line, they know when things are not going right, and they know when things need to be improved. And if you listen to them, you can soon improve all those niggly things which turns an average company into an exceptional company.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people.