If You Have A Charismatic Cause You

Perhaps Your Quest To Be Part Of Building Something Great Will Not Fall In Your Business Life. But Find It Somewhere. If Not In Corporate Life, Then Perhaps In Making Your Church Great. If Not There, Then Perhaps A Nonprofit, Or A Community Organization, Or A Class You Teach. Get Involved In Something That You Care So Much About That You Want To Make It The Greatest It Can Possibly Be, Not Because Of What You Will Get, But Just Because It Can Be Done.

Mediocrity Results First And Foremost From Management Failure, Not Technological Failure.

We Must Reject The Idea... Well-intentioned, But Dead Wrong... That The Primary Path To Greatness In The Social Sectors Is To Become "more Like A Business." Most Businesses... Like Most Of Anything Else In Life... Fall Somewhere Between Mediocre And Good.

If I'm Going Really, Really Fast, I Can Do A Page Of Finished Text A Day, On Average.

The Best Ceos In Our Research Display Tremendous Ambition For Their Company Combined With The Stoic Will To Do Whatever It Takes, No Matter How Brutal (within The Bounds Of The Company's Core Values), To Make The Company Great. Yet At The Same Time They Display A Remarkable Humility About Themselves, Ascribing Much Of Their Own Success To Luck, Discipline And Preparation Rather Than Personal Genius.