Over a plate of Argentine beef cooked on a tabletop grill at a fashionable Sao Paolo restaurant, he proudly shows his card authorizing him to drive a high-performance car on an amateur track.

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To help get you started, let's better understand faith, fire and focus and pose a few questions you can ask yourself to find out whether you're on track to build a culture of high performance, or if you're actually creating interference that blocks it.

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The Russell 2000 Index (RUT), a popular benchmark for mutual funds to track their performance against, closed at an all-time high last Wednesday, surpassing the previous high reached in July 2007.

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