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Fanatic Discipline: Set your course on a
“20-mile March.”
What is it that you can do today to ensure that you reach
your goals tomorrow and the next day and the day after that?
Collins uses the “20-mile
TAKEAWAY:
March” analogy to describe
What are your 20-mile
great leaders as having disciMarch milestones and how
plined commitment to
do you keep your team on
“consecutive, consistent pera consistent course to
reach them?
formance.” To reach that
20-mile mark every day, they
resist the urge to overreach when conditions are good and
stay on course with a consistent march toward the common
goal. “The signature of mediocrity is not