The medicine for mediocrity is meaning.

If you haven’t seen the movie Invictus. Don’t walk, run, and get it, or Netflix it, or whatever. Watch it now. When it came out, I watched it on Saturday and the next week shut down the office and took our entire team to see it. The South African soccer team was average until they were inspired to play for a greater purpose, leading me to surmise that the medicine for mediocrity is meaning.

We who are leaders must infuse the work we lead with meaning—the Greater WHY—in order to motivate our teams. When the WHY is evident, the HOW becomes more obvious.