Well, the reality is that there is nothing fundamentally new here: truly exceptional companies have been doing this all along.
Likewise, the current period in America and its relations with the world have been truly exceptional, requiring a leader who can fundamentally challenge a global majority's view that America has become arrogant, impotent and selfish.
Duncan said: "I can't speak for the UK, but I will tell you, in the United States, teacher evaluation is just fundamentally broken and over 90% of teachers receive an exceptional rating in our country".
But now he's moving to a sport whose calculus of value is fundamentally minimalist – where the best players are those who are exceptional at one thing and one thing only.
And she has an exceptional ability to hit the nail on the head and fundamentally understand people, regardless of whether she's tackling commitment issues, friendship conflicts, creative block or how to live with an STD.
Silicon Valley, and the tech industry as a whole, is fundamentally based on the precept that an accumulation of good, excellent, and exceptional engineers leads to an outcome wildly beyond the cost of the sum of its parts.
Time and again, he concludes with disclaimers such as "no specific configuration of traits... underlie exceptional creativity"; or that "the working of unconscious processing in exceptional creativity is still, fundamentally, an enigma".
Granted, this is a man who has betrayed his exceptional talent and his promise to the sport — who has, if the charges are true, fundamentally blown it.
