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Thursday
Jan292009

Are You. . . .

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Tiger Woods has an insatiable appetite for winning: An unprecedented drive to innovate and redefine the game of golf on his terms. He's the world's greatest golfer (and one of the world's best athletes) because he's ravenous - that step beyond being hungry.

Michael Jordan wasn't a five-time NBA Most Valuable Player, a member of six NBA championship teams, a ten-time All-NBA First Team and a six-time NBA Finals Most Valuable Player because he was hungry.  Its because he was ravenous. Determined to be the best.

Obama, a two year senator with relatively little experience in national politics and a novice by all conventional standards, didn't ascend to the highest office of the United States because he was hungry. He along with the people of this country, ravenous for change, made a decision to want something more and something better, and something different for their future.

Hunger is great.

But being ravenous takes you to the edges. It takes you to the fringes. The place where excellence dwells; the place where real change, creativity and innovation happens.

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