Status Updates From Good to Great - Why some co...

In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work… you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on earth has been well spent. And that it mattered.

Non business example of a coach and building up the high school XC team.

The story of Walt Disney… he decided that Disney could build something much better perhaps even the best in the world… the whole idea is to bring a smile to a child’s face. 🥹

Those who turn good to great are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake. Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity, in contrast, are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

Much of the answer to the question of “good to great” lies in the discipline to do whatever it takes to become the best within carefully selected arenas and then to seek continual improvement. from there… everyone would like to be the best, but organizations lack the discipline to figure out with egoless clarity… they lack disciple to rinse their cottage cheese