On the undisciplined pursuit of more....

     Curiously, and overstating the point in order to make it, the pursuit of success can be a catalyst for failure.  Put another way, success can distract us from focusing on the essential things that produce success in the first place.
     We can see this everywhere around us.  In his book How The Mighty Fall, Jim Collins explores what went wrong in companies that were once darlings of Wall Street but later collapsed.  He finds that for many, falling into the "undisciplined pursuit of more" was a key reason for failure.

-Greg McKeown, essentialism:  The Disciplined Pursuit of Less