Here's a thought from Leadership and Self Deception on what creates long-term success for a company: "I'm not minimizing the importance of, for example, getting smart and skilled people into the company or working hard or any other number of things that are important to Tweddle's success. But notice - everyone else has duplicated all of that stuff, but they've yet to duplicate our results. And that's because they don't know how much smarter smart people are, how much more skilled skilled people get, and how much harder hardworking people work when they see, and are seen, straightforwardly - as people."
"I'm not minimizing the importance of, for example, getting smart and skilled people into the company or working hard or any other number of things that are important to Tweddle's success. But notice - everyone else has duplicated all of that stuff, but they've yet to duplicate our results. And that's because they don't know how much smarter smart people are, how much more skilled skilled people get, and how much harder hardworking people work when they see, and are seen, straightforwardly - as people."