in short, strong leaders translate into companies with stocks that outperform, texaco, apple, johnsonnd johnson, headily west point graduate alex goreski. hear from later night. second point of similarity, first mover advantage. if you want to beat your rivals be ahead of your game, perceive what enemy is doing and beat them to the punch. firstest with the mostest. embracing technology like amazon which dominates market using artificial intelligence, figuring out what you want before you even know or facebook and google, using brains and computing power to distinguish themselves versus the competition. third, victorious organizations rely on loyalty to that institution. bedrock of successful art but ingredient to succeed in banking. morgan, goldman sachs, bank of america, each case see loyalty to the institution forged in fire many of the leaders followed the companies through recession and investigations by justice department to keep their banks whole. by the way, i know you rarely hear about situations where bankers are the good guys, but aside from -- other than defense contractors