Sustaining Greatness while the Sky is falling...

So much hand wringing and whining about what "might" happen next in the market. How about looking for opportunities, understanding risks and how to manage them in order to acheive new levels of success? Came across these gems in an article from hrgrouponline.com. Definitlely worth some attention and thought!

• Recipe for Sustaining Greatness
  Companies do not fail primarily because of what the world does to them or because of how the world changes around them; they fail first and foremost because of what they do to themselves.
• Great companies that have achieved and sustained greatness have trained leaders who could evolve and create a portfolio of flywheels - yet they also held tight to core values that have remained fixed for 100 years or more.
• Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, whether you make it onto the Fortune 500, and whether you stay there, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.
• Throughout history the greatest companies have used adverse times to their advantage
  When you've built an institution with values and a purpose beyond just making money - when you've built a culture that makes a distinctive contribution while delivering exceptional results - why would you surrender to the forces of mediocrity and succumb to irrelevance?
• The best corporate leaders never point out the window to blame external conditions; they look in the mirror and say, "We are responsible for our results!"