• Choose the right industry: Focus on growing and expanding industries to increase opportunities for success.
• Embrace struggle and failure: Learn from setbacks and use them as formative experiences to grow as a leader.
• Precise and narrow mission: Define a clear and specific mission to focus resources and prevent mission creep.
• Raise the quality of work: Aim for greatness in all aspects of the organization to create excitement and energy.
• Maintain tempo and pace: Encourage a fast, efficient, and intense working environment to drive results.
• Conviction: Be passionate and committed to your decisions and goals.
• Courage: Make difficult decisions and lead even when it's not popular.
• Clarity: Provide clear explanations and guidance to help your team understand complex situations and objectives.
• Patience: Acknowledge that success takes time, and exceptional early successes are not the norm.