Tom Peters did some end-of-summer thinking about why he does what he does, and wrote it up in a little white paper. Here is the first sentence (without his parenthetical clauses and some editing):

Passionate servant leaders must necessarily create organizations which are no less than Cathedrals in which the full and awesome power of the Imagination and Spirit and native Entrepreneurial flair of diverse individuals is unleashed in passionate pursuit of jointly perceived soaring purpose and personal and Client service Excellence. 

This is why he gets out of bed in the mornings. To help make this happen. He admits that his description could be characterized as Utopian, but he also says “better is better than nothing.” And he quotes Michelangelo: “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."