The Four-Minute Cure

[Guest guest]

" A great English physiologist got the Nobel Prize for a book in which

he proved that the human body cannot possibly run the mile faster than

five minutes, and I think that within a week after the publication of

that book a totally obscure Finn broke the five-minute mile barrier;

and WITHIN, I WOULD SAY, SIX WEEKS ALL OF US HIGH SCHOOL KIDS ALL OVER

THE WORLD HAD RAISED OUR OWN SPEED BY SIX SECONDS HERE, NINE SECONDS

THERE, and 10 or 12 years later, when the four-minute barrier was

broken, the same thing happened.

" We stand on the shoulders of our predecessors. "

- Drucker, " Managing The Nonprofit Organization "

Why did I send this to you?

Every day some of you send in e-mails telling about things you've done

that have never before in human history been done -- the equivalent of

the four-minute mile. The more aware you are of this, and the more

consciously you choose to do it, the faster we will sweep disease from

the planet.

It's the hundredth monkey effect.

Your visionary leader,

Bayard