Getting a Leader's Mind in Shape: Exercise #5

Cue the workout music ... in your head, of course (for the introductory explanation of this "Mental Aerobics Class" series, see #1).

From the section "Openers: Some Preliminary Stretching Exercises" in Leadership: Thinking, Being, Doing,

The difficulty of making a high-performance organization, of fulfilling any great and worthy cause, has never been over-estimated. It is mediocrity that is easy, not excellence.

High-performance: hard. Mediocrity: easy.

Think on that and share.