What does marginal effort do for you?
Noah Lyles Wins the 100 Meter in Dramatic Photo Finish WSJ 4 Aug 2024 I once spoke with a business leader in an airport waiting at our gate. He was a tech entrepreneur from Silicon Valley. We spoke about our employees and how they contributed to our organizations. He had a startup educational technology business, at the time, I was as district official supervising 54 schools. I learned from him a simple truth, that a little more effort, above the average, was all it took to stand out above the rest. Now, all of these athlete above are world class and given a lifetime of training and effort to their sport. Well above ordinary, but in the photo above, it is a fraction of a second that made the difference. Lyles did not win this race by a few seconds, its was a fraction. Anyone who has both risen to a position of leadership as a supervisor, manager or executive knows this principle. Those individuals have performed in a way that is seen...