Chapter 3. Accountability for Results

IMAGINE YOURSELF AT a basketball game. There you are seated front-row center when the players take the court. The teams are composed of ten of the finest athletes in the world, and this is championship play. The buzzer sounds, the ball is in the air, and these million-dollar giants take over. The arena is packed, and ten thousand hearts beat as one as twenty thousand eyes follow the ball. Suddenly, a grunt, a flash, and a man is borne into the air. A ball is plunged through a hoop, a glass backboard shatters, and all hell breaks loose. Amidst the hoopla, you glance up to see the score.

But there is no scoreboard! There is nothing but thin air where a scoreboard should be. Suddenly all that was held so closely just seconds before is lost. Despite the wizardry of the athletes and the magic of the moment, the game is nothing without the score.