Part 3Executing

You should be the change that you want to see in the world.

Mohandas Gandhi

You have been making all the right investments and in the right market. You are becoming, for example, an expert in implementing service-oriented architectures for wirelessly enabled pizza delivery applications, and the pizza delivery industry is starting to boom like it has never boomed before. Before getting too wrapped up in amore with yourself, I should warn you that everything we’ve talked about so far is prep work. It all leads to this moment, where the sauce hits the dough: you have to actually do something.

Unless you’re really lucky, you’re probably not getting paid to be smart. And you aren’t getting paid to be a leading expert in the latest ...

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