What is the Opposite of Excellence?

In his new book, Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World, Michael Hyatt offers five reasons why we settle for less than excellence:

We run out of time
We don’t have sufficient resources
We have insufficient experience
We acquiesce to the committee
We are afraid

All of these are serious and no doubt we’ve all experienced them all.

Who hasn’t faced compromise in the face of a looming deadline? Who hasn’t struggled to “just get it done” when the resources are short? Who hasn’t sighed and determined to “...