Getting it done?

You know what you want to accomplish.

You know how you'd like everything to turn out. The real question is, "what are you willing to make sacrifices for?" What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.

One model of organization is to find something that you're good at and that's easy and straightforward and get paid for that. The other model is to seek out things that are insanely difficult and do those instead.

"How do we do something so difficult that others can't imagine doing it?" is a fine question to ask every now and then.

"There are two types of genius. Ordinary geniuses do great things, but they leave you room to believe that you could do the same if only you worked hard enough. Then there are magicians, and you have no idea how they do it. Feynman was a magician"
-Hans Bethe, theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate.