The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. --Vince Lombardi
Extract from For your Improvement by Michael Lombardo and Eichinger:
Skills for being committed to excellence:
o Dedicated to providing common systems for designing and measuring processes
o Seeks to reduce variances in processes
o Delivers the highest quality products and services
o Committed to continuous improvement through empowerment and management by data
o Leverages technology to positively impact quality
o A willingness to re-engineer processes from scratch
o Open to experimentation and suggestions
o Creates a learning environment leading to efficient and effective processes
How would you rate the work that is performed or the product that you deliver? Do you take the time to review those results and take note of what has been done well (so it can be repeated) and identify any gaps (so they can be improved upon)?
What about your personal life? Are you as committed to excellence at home as you are at work? Could your life improve and perhaps your levels of happiness and satisfaction grow if you took the time to assess what worked well and what caused friction?
We could all benefit by identifying where we excel and why, and by implementing both personal and professional best practices.
Having a commitment to excellence, and allowing it to become a habit will serve us well!
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit". -- Aristotle
Extract from For your Improvement by Michael Lombardo and Eichinger:
Skills for being committed to excellence:
o Dedicated to providing common systems for designing and measuring processes
o Seeks to reduce variances in processes
o Delivers the highest quality products and services
o Committed to continuous improvement through empowerment and management by data
o Leverages technology to positively impact quality
o A willingness to re-engineer processes from scratch
o Open to experimentation and suggestions
o Creates a learning environment leading to efficient and effective processes
How would you rate the work that is performed or the product that you deliver? Do you take the time to review those results and take note of what has been done well (so it can be repeated) and identify any gaps (so they can be improved upon)?
What about your personal life? Are you as committed to excellence at home as you are at work? Could your life improve and perhaps your levels of happiness and satisfaction grow if you took the time to assess what worked well and what caused friction?
We could all benefit by identifying where we excel and why, and by implementing both personal and professional best practices.
Having a commitment to excellence, and allowing it to become a habit will serve us well!
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit". -- Aristotle
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