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effective CEO/coach might say,

Great leaders set up their organizations to succeed beyond their own lifetimes, and when they do, the benefits—for us, for business and even for the shareholder—are extraordinary.

“As we’ve seen in books like Jim Collins’ Good to Great, the most important part of a company’s culture is not that it merely has values, but that the employees actually commit to them.

had to define my own standard of success even though I had to answer to the team’s standard of what it needed.

but one that was absolutely key was the type of leader who in every case led the company into greatness.

The School Bus Test is a simple metaphor. If a founder or leader of an organization were to be hit by a school bus, would the organization continue to thrive at the same pace without them at the helm? So many organizations are built on the force of a single personality that their departure can cause significant disruption. The question isn’t if it

Ed said companies should “create constancy of purpose.” By this, he meant an aim, direction, or purpose—a desired outcome. Eliyahu Goldratt named his book The Goal after this concept. Bestselling author Simon Sinek calls it the why. Most modern organizations have mission statements that pay lip service to this idea, but few truly have a purpose. Fe