Impatience Is a Virtue: A Life Where the Buck Stops

Shortly after he was named president of Purdue University, Mitch Daniels was asked by the journalist Jonathan Alter if it bothered him that he could have been President of the United States instead. It bothered those who thought then and still do today that Indiana’s chief executive should have been America’s. Daniels, though, was off to the next chapter in one of America’s most remarkable lives.

From the White House to the C-suite at Eli Lilly and Company to Indiana’s Governor’s Office to t...