Talking Points: What makes great companies great

Becoming the best at something is often achieved by modeling the behaviors of winners and putting those behaviors into practice. Here are the characteristics of a high-performance company:

• Has a purpose that focuses the energy of all its members (typically, that purpose is to be the best there is or ever was)
• Simultaneously and continuously maximizes the self-interests of all its stakeholders
• Outperforms all others (by any measure) not because of what propels it, but in spite of any and all obstacles that impede it
• Makes it possible for ordinary people to perform in an extraordinary fashion
• Transforms its people into “owners” of the organization’s destiny
• Is a healthy organization committed to being great, no matter what it takes
• Knows that the execution is more important than the strategy

While a strategic plan is the means, growth and high-performance are the end to those means.

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Topics in this post: Creating a Strategic Plan, High-performance company, Strategic Business Planning |