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What high-growth companies get right
High performers are highly driven, attacking each goal with enthusiasm and focus. They minimise energy wastage and channel their efforts into tasks that matter.
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty four days now without taking a fish.”
What can we learn from Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and The Sea, a story of Santiago, a down- on-his- luck Cuban fisherman and his ordeal with a giant marlin? In today’s terms, would we say the old man had ‘grit’? Is the fisherman’s eventual triumph proof of an underlying ‘growth mindset’ and a demonstration of the 10,000-hour rule? If you procrastinate are you following in the footsteps of the great creatives?
