Exceptional People Think in Decades - by Dr. Julie Gurner
Want to listen to this week’s edition of Ultra Successful? Click here or scroll to the bottom of the post to tune in. "If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you're competing against a lot of people. But if you're willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you're now competing against a fraction of those people." -Jeff Bezos The true scale of Amazon took decades—what it was able to achieve, and what it was able to fuel. In just over the seven-year timeline he referenced, Bezos brought Blue Origin to life and was finally able to make good on his boyhood dream of space exploration. This is someone who thinks in decades…and it’s a marker of some of the most exceptional people on the planet. From Bezos to Buffett, the ability to set a dot in the sky, and find your way there isn’t about quick money—it’s about legacy. In my work, my largest clients are able to balance short-term time horizons while building for the decades to come. They don’t always know e
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