Transformation: Slow or Sudden?

Then it began to dawn on us: There was no miracle moment.

Although it may have looked like a single-stroke breakthrough to those peering in from the outside, it was anything but that to people experiencing the transformation from within.

Rather, it was a quiet deliberate process of figuring out what needed to be done to create the best future results and then simply taking those steps, one after the other, turn by turn of the flywheel.

Jim Collins, writing in Good to Great

The best companies have an unrelenting focus on desired future results. Every decision, every action, and every resource is aimed at achieving the long-term goals.

And most important, short-term setbacks are not an excuse for abandoning long-term goals.