Comment by roenxi

This article could do with a good edit to cut out the middle section, which appears to be a list of mostly meaningless platitudes. Although I can't argue with great managers "organise ... a free team lunch" - managers of the world take note; deficiencies on the free lunch front could be what is holding you back from greatness.

The basic idea of greatness being small optimisations in a large number of areas is worth repeating a few times though. The majority of greatness comes from avoiding making any well known basic mistakes and a strategy of working through all the details and checking for small problems can do a lot to enable that. Big dramatic gestures generally do not.