Comments on: Inspiring Excellence – Alpha to Omega

By: Fawn

Fawn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:01:37 +0000

Gary,
You make an excellent point in that Omega is not the end. In fact, it’s counterproductive to think that one Omega–no matter the size of the goal–will be the almighty answer, the provider of complete fulfillment . Goals, I’ve found, are similar to houses. A person, family moves into one and no matter how magnificent it is, they eventually outgrow it in some way and need to remodel, or move entirely. We change. Thus the Omega changes.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:12:04 +0000

Although it may feel correct and to trudge closer to ‘excellence’ regardless of time constraints, in many contexts (medicine, sales, purchasing, inventing, exploring, etc), grinding through full and lengthy analysis process prior to finding your answer and making your decision is limited to inflexible, concrete deadlines, which are both real and tethered to dire consequences for failing to meet a time deadline.

Granted, if a deadline is artificial, then grinding out the most correct answer is desirable, but deadlines are deadlines for a reason. Something is riding on getting to the finish line before other.

By: LaTonya

LaTonya — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:14:22 +0000

Excellent point Todd and thanks for saying that.
As I read the excellence piece, my thoughts immediately turned to another Blair blurb that I heard recently – analysis by paralysis. I’m definitely slowed down by analysis and I struggled with being faster after making that realization. The result is a feeling that I’m jeopardizing excellent. Though the analysis slows me down, in the end the results get me closer to my relative point of excellence.

By: Todd Tolson

Todd Tolson — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:47:55 +0000

Gary,

I LOVE 99% of your post. While I agree that Excellence is NOT a relative term, it’s results will be relative to a person’s context. In other words, person A may have more contacts, information & amp; resources than person B.

Therefore, if both of them gave 100% effort, Person A’s outcome will look more “excellent” than Person B’s.

I’ll also push back a little and say that Person A may have more contacts, information & resources, and can only exert 80% (or less) effort and still “look” more excellent than Person B. While Person B who has less contacts, information & resources than Person A, but gives it their all.

Regardless of appearance, Person B would be more excellent. That’s why I say that Excellence is relative to a person’s context.

Todd