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What construes excelling?

By Bamboo In The Wind

Our understanding of progress relates to achieving something worthwhile. Our notion of excelling at something is exceeding the past achievement.

Raising the bar often means jumping over the hurdle, starting with the lowest level first and gradually moving the bar up.

The notion high jump in the Olympics teaches us that unless you hop over the raised bar to win unless you better the performance of someone who came before you!

While raising the bar for personal excellence is exciting, it also creates isolation among those you are unwilling to participate for the starting hurdle for participation it lays out.

In real life, however, the contrarian approach builds a winning culture for collective efforts. Raising the bar is only sometimes necessary for excelling.

In workplaces and group settings, setting ways to excel the performance of the groups requires distributing the work to carefully avoid burn-outs. That raises the average performance and generates interest.

Innovations set rolling the betterment of what already exists by raising the performance of what was earlier a mediocre performance.

The franchise model does not promise to offer goods of better quality. They provide a consistent experience and predictable availability making routine problems easier to address for those who come to depend on them.

Raising the average rather than raising the bar makes more sense. It has a better impact.

Creating the platform for raising the average establishes the ground for excelling those who never made it to the race in the first place!

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