Leap of Reason provides a framework of concepts and procedures for organizations to refine the way they do things. If focuses on strategies that can measure performance and the development of leaders and staffs. It is used in management classes in universities across the country and abroad. Users are shown ways to check information and practices to assess outcomes.

Simply put, the book helps you, your organization and your staff to re-define what you are all about. It is about accepting a wake up call and “walking the talk” with direct involvement. It is about doing all this as funding becomes scarcer. Mario Marino says he has an inherent need to first ask “Why?” before “What” and “How.” I was part of all computer generations and in the beginning our main question was “What if.” This opens the door to a flow chart of ideas with all possibilities knowing that every action has a reaction. There is always a need to see what is lurking at the end of any answer. It also helps to find ways to streamline whatever you intend to accomplish.

Mario Marino says adjustments have to be made as we are now living in an era of scarcity. I see this more than just a problem of funding. We are now also living in an era of diminishing possibilities in a world with a surplus of workers and labor. At least a billion people in the world are willing to work for practically nothing. In this setting the value of labor and workers are deflated and degraded. This value is most likely a greater value and money standard than paper money itself. This fiat money has to be manipulated to grow values and with the money changers trying to invent money products out of it. Now our economies based on making money on money instead of making things and adding value to them and workers who make the things are burning out. The trade deficits is a major indicator showing how much value is has been lost. It totals in the trillion of dollars. It is no wonder, that we are living in an era of scarcity. It is full of contradictions. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress during the debates about President Bush's stimulus package that the best way to stimulate the economy was to buy “domestically produced” goods. He was ignored. This is why we will continue to have money problems and all the non-profit organizations in the world will waste their energies until we get back to the real world and really do the walk before we talk.

We need to define the causes and effects behind our economic problems before trying to resolve them. Alan Greenspan said he thought equity loans were a good money product and was surprise when things did work out. The trillion dollar bail out is an equity loan on future generations as we wait for the next economic bubble to burst. It won't be a surprise.