Excellence is Contagious -- But how did you start the ball rolling?

[philso]

As a mentor, I suspect that I am not alone when I say that I would rather work with teams who

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

get up early, eat your Wheaties, work really hard, and go to bed late

rather than teams who make excuses like

Originally Posted by Ian Curtis

"Well those teams are just good because Acme Corp sends a crack team of genius engineers and managers and a robot bag filled with money to help them out every year"

so it probably becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy.

After speaking with a lot of teams, especially the top teams, I have noticed that the first group all have the passion that Kim spoke of. I suspect that passion would lead them to do well whether or not they had help from "a crack team of genius engineers and managers and a robot bag filled with money to help them out every year". It just might take them a bit longer.