Good is the enemy of great. That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human… — James C. Collins

A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

Most businesses -— like most of anything else in life -— fall somewhere between mediocre and good. Few are great. When you compare great companies with good ones, many widely practiced business norms turn out to correlate with mediocrity, not greatness. So, then, why would we want to import the practices of mediocrity into the social sectors?