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Follow through on anything you say you’ll do as a matter of personal integrity.

…managers have to be sure to do what they say they’re going to do.

Standard feedback is about small behaviors. Systemic feedback addresses the moral hazard of a direct committing to new behavior but then failing to follow through.

…companies make false promises to employees – pledging change through intensive communication campaigns but providing little actual follow-through.

…follow-through in high school extracurriculars predicted graduating from college with academic honors better than any variable.

…follow-through predicted notable accomplishments for a young adult in all domains, from the arts and writing to entrepreneurism and community service.

…following through on our commitments while we grow up both requires grit and, at the same time, builds it.

…following through on hard things teaches a young person powerful, transferable lessons.

…most organizations are unhealthy precisely because they aren’t doing the basic things, which require discipline, persistence, and follow-through…

The ingredients for long-term success – courage, vision, follow-through, risk, opportunity, sweat, sacrifice, skill, discipline, honesty, graciousness, generosity – never vary.