The Future Is Brighter

What makes a company great?  Is it the fact that it is growing and the stockholders are making money?  Maybe it's because it's on the leading edge of technological breakthroughs?  Can it be the individuals that work for the business?  It quite possibly depends on where you are in the stream, what your position in relationship to the organization is.  It in all probability is all of these things and more, much more.  
If you are a stockholder, sure you want a return on your investment, but you are not going to get one if it is a poorly run organization.  So what are you looking for, you want a organization with good profits, one that's growing and is making more money that it is spending.  You also want a business that isn’t spending money frivolously and making bad acquisitions and wasting away all of its profits unwisely.  Of course you don’t want those things to happen, but how can you tell what the culture of the business is without being inside to see it?  
You can read all of the reports and all of the financial information, but until you see the individuals, know what they are doing and how they feel about the business, you will never get a true sense of how it’s run.  One of the things that makes a company good, makes it stand above others is the efficiency in which it’s run. Companies that are doing well, that are making profits and making their shareholders money are usually very efficiently run.  
But like every company and organization, there is always room for improvement. There always has to be improvement, otherwise the business becomes stagnant and rests on its past accomplishments.  You always have to be hungry, to be looking forward to the future and to know what you still want to accomplish.  The past is great and you should never forget what you have done, what the organization has accomplished as a team, but the future can be just as bright and the future can still be better than the past if you are still willing to work for it.  That means constant improvement and getting better at what you're already good at.  It means looking for new ideas in new places and discovering new talent and being able to identify that new talent.  It means working as a team and doing things better than they’ve ever been done before with new techniques and new technology.