
Where to Now St. Peter?
Song lyrics, Tumbleweed Connection (1970)
St Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005)
Where to Now St. Peter?
Song lyrics, Tumbleweed Connection (1970)
“But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.”
Source: Crewel Lye
What is a visionary company? Visionary companies are premier institutions -- the crown jewels -- in their industries, widely admired by their peers and having a long track record of making a significant impact on the world around them. The key point is that a visionary company is an organization -- an institution. All individual leaders, no matter how charismatic or visionary, eventually die; and all visionary products and services -- all "great ideas" -- eventually become obsolete. Indeed, entire markets can become obsolete and disappear. Yet visionary companies prosper over long periods of time, through multiple product life cycles and multiple generations of active leaders.
Book abstract, as cited in: Joe Kelly, Louise Kelly (1998), An Existential-systems Approach to Managing Organizations. p. 256
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, 1994
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Loving
“There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.”
Source: Selected Poetry
Frederick Herzberg in: M.M. Gruneberg (1976), Job Satisfaction. p. 19