Traditional Qualities
- Greatness starts with superb people.
- Great groups and great leaders create each other.
- Every great group has a strong leader.
- The leaders of great group love talent and know where to find it.
- Great groups are talented people who can work together.
- Great groups think they are on a mission from God.
- Every great group is an island-but an island with a bridge to the mainland.
- Great groups see themselves as winning underdogs.
- Great groups always have an enemy.
- People in great groups have blinders on.
- Great groups are optimistic not realistic.
- In great groups, the right person has the right job.
- Leaders of great groups give them what they need and free them from the rest.
- Great work is its own reward.
List borrowed from California Alumni association