CHAPTER 13

Pass-I-On to Your Partnership

The spark of passion ignites the fuel for innovation.

—CRAIG GROESCHEL

You can tell you are about to meet zeal personified when a colleague’s face lights up as he announces, “Let me get David for you.” The coworker’s animated look lodges your eager anticipation somewhere between “you are in for a treat” and “you ain’t gonna believe this!”

Then, it happens. You come face to face with a person who has fallen hopelessly in love with his role!

My business partner and I were staying at a Marriott near Chicago, had finished a late afternoon hotel meeting with one client, and were en route to a nearby restaurant to meet another client for dinner. The restaurant was beyond walking distance but an insultingly ...

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