A commitment to quality is a commitment to perfection as quality comes from putting your heart and soul into your work.

It means that you are lovingly doing all of the things that bring out your absolute best.

The word ‘love’ is appropriate, because it is precisely right in both the meaning and the feeling that it carries.   …continues

Guido Daniele is a brilliant artist who has turned his hand to creating a wholly different style of painting which he dubs as ‘Handimals‘.

Rather than working on canvas, he uses human hands to produce these stunning animals – like a Technicolor version of the “shadows on the wall” game.   …continues

Paul Dalton has been haled as “the best car wash in the world” by Autocar magazine, but an average invoice of $550 gives you a clue that this is more than your average shampoo and polish.

His company Miracle Detail, specializes in ‘detailing’ high-end cars, from vintage classics to supercars such as the Bugatti Veyron, and can cost anything up to a wallet-busting $5,000.   …continues

Perfectionism helps the composer, poet, and writer to craft a work of beauty from random words which in turn touches the heart and mind.

Perfectionists search for ways to make the complex simple, visualize the perfect outcome, and work with an obsessive sense of conviction to make their vision a reality.   …continues

Wish Upon A Hero is a very special site which was conceived by a very special man, Dave Girgenti.

Shortly after the September 11th attacks on New York City and from his home in NJ, Girgenti watched as thousands of people posted pictures of missing loved ones throughout the city.   …continues

Every morning when you wake up, you can — and should — embrace the notion that there is something about you, your life, your business, or the way that you carry yourself that could stand to be improved.

Every day requires dedication, discipline, good judgment, energy — and the feeling that there’s something about yourself that you can make better.   …continues

Let’s cut right to the chase, you make hundreds of decisions every day. Some matter more than others. But committing to excellence is one of the most important decisions you will ever make in terms of your life’s success.

Excellence is a quality, a standard, and it will become the expected norm once you embrace excellence as a core value.   …continues

A flawed premise of success is that the goal is the most important ingredient in the stew of success, and that you win or lose based on the merits or worthiness of the goal. How wrong and casualty-creating that premise is as the best goal or most honorable intention cannot survive poor execution.

Goals never fail. Only implementation does!  …continues

In computer science there exists a term called the divide-and-conquer algorithm.

What this algorithm basically does is that it breaks down a larger problem into smaller sub-problems and each of those sub-problems are then broken down into even smaller sub-problems.  …continues

The other night I was watching a 60 Minutes interview with Olympic Champion Michael Phelps. During the interview, the host Anderson Cooper showed pictures of Phelps winning the 100-meter butterfly final at the Water Cube in Beijing by ONE-HUNDREDTH of a second over Serbia’s Milorad Cavic.

Phelps admitted that his winning margin of one-hundredth of a second was almost impossible to see but it was because of ONE small difference   …continues

Mark Johnson is the producer of a remarkable documentary about the simple but transformative power of music: Playing for Change: Peace Through Music.

Playing for Change is a movement uniting people all over the world through music and inspiration. I absolutely love their mission and commitment to inspiring peace through music.   …continues

There’s a very popular book series that has enjoyed a long life on the best seller list titled, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff. It offers a philosophy that is immensely popular, but highly flawed as it panders to the majority by telling them what they want to hear rather than what they need to do. As pragmatic advice on how to run a business and live a life of excellence, it’s a big steaming pile of nonsense. This is bad advice, and it spells trouble in the current economy.  …continues

Imagine a camp where kids and teens learn to become exceptional human beings. Imagine this camp as a place where kids and teens are taught quantum learning skills allowing them to significantly accelerate their mastery of math, reading, writing and memory. And imagine this camp that focuses your child’s efforts on adopting excellence as a core value and invaluable life skill.

This sound likes a really super camp doesn’t it? Well, this SuperCamp does exist and it is the brainchild of Bobbi DePorter.  …continues

Dr James Orbinski is an exceptional human being who through his unrelenting efforts is reinventing the entire conversation on humanitarianism.

Dr. Orbinski is past international president (1998-2001) of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders. MSF is the world’s largest fully independent medical humanitarian organization with over 400 projects in more than 80 different countries.   …continues

Have you ever wondered why some people are more successful than others? Is it because they think bigger? Or could it be that they think BETTER? The purpose of this post is to help you think better which will result in your ability to be a better leader.   …continues

I’ve always been impressed with the Socratic Method of teaching by asking good, sound, leading questions that challenge the intellect, so here’s one for you to ponder: “How does one create and sustain outstanding performance?”

First and foremost, you must live and die by the spirit of this rule:   …continues

If you long to accomplish great and noble tasks, you first must learn to approach every task as though it were great and noble. Even the grandest project depends on the success of the smallest components.

The popular philosophy that instructs us not to “sweat the small stuff” is flawed, because it breeds poor customer service, under-performance, wasted opportunity, mistakes, inconsistencies, rework, and oversights.  …continues

When someone does something so right, so honest and, yes, so commendable, attention must be paid. A focus on unique contribution allows one to make deposits into their sphere of influence in such a way that looking away is not an option. Ann Mahlum is one such person who deserves all the attention she can handle.

I was first drawn to Ann’s story by way of the CNN Heroes initiative.   …continues

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader. A lot of business thinking has stressed the notion of empowerment, of pushing down and getting a lot of people involved. That’s very important, but empowerment and involvement don’t apply to the ultimate act of choice.

To be successful, an organization must have a very strong leader who’s willing to make choices and define the trade-offs.   …continues

Do you want to be excellent? I mean do you want to build a reputation for being the best in your field? Is so, then here’s a guaranteed strategy that will work instantly for anyone, anywhere, in any profession.

Stop – right now, this instant by simply deciding to quit doing less than excellent work. What a profound idea!   …continues