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Stage VI: Nurturing a Culture of Excellence

Once you’ve reached stage VI, you’re an indisputable winner. The turnaround is complete. It’s not to say that you won’t go through some hard times. No matter how good you become, you and your team will occasionally face setbacks. But stage VI is about bracing for those times by developing a winning culture that is both lasting and enduring. Everyone dips. You’ll have a losing season or a bad year, but winning organizations find ways to carry on and triumph in spite of the inevitable pitfalls. Organizations that reach stage VI have done so because they maintain a level of long-standing excellence that comes to define them. Over time, they succeed, and even when they fail, they recover quickly, turning ...

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