Sunday, March 18, 2007

Achieve the Excellence !

Excellence

Every now and then you encounter someone who demonstrates excellence on the job. It might be a manager who generates both high performance and loyalty in his teams. It could be a teacher with a knack for unlocking the desire to learn in each student. Excellence, true excellence, is something we prize but seldom see. It is a joy to encounter someone who is truly excellent at what they do.

One comment that is heard time and again about those who demonstrate excellence is, "He/she is a natural at it." They don’t seem to struggle to be excellent. it just flows. That is always a sign of motivation, and there in lies

The first key: Motivation is required for excellence.

Motivation is what we like to do naturally. It’s like being right or left- handed. We don’t even think about it. We just write. The same is true for people known for excellence. They have a group of motivations that work in concert to help them perform at a higher level. Like all motivations, these were inborn and are as much a part of them as being blue-eyed or tall.

But there is a second key: Motivation can be developed.

People who demonstrate excellence have identified their motivations and worked hard to develop them. They have added knowledge, skill, experience and practice to consistently produce at the highest levels.

By the way, there is a flip side to these two keys, and it is this: The best we can be with low motivation is adequate. No matter how hard we work and desire it, in the long run we will never be excellent at something without high levels of motivation in that area. In other words, if we toil in areas where we have low motivation, we resign ourselves to mediocrity.

To achieve excellence in every work , we are suppose to be self motivated towards the work. If we feel the motivation is inadequate to achieve the excellence , then we must work on it and we must develop the skill of being motivated.

“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. – Aristotle “

13 comments:

balar said...

Excellent write up...

Balaji S Rajan said...

Yes. You are right.

If someone is good in something naturally they are bound to excel. Some have inclination to do things well but require a little motivation and guidance and they do excel.

Sowmya said...

Balar & Balaji -->> Thanks for the visit and ur comments :)

Shruti said...

Motivation is the key factor for excellence...
Different people have different motivation behind work but then each person have some..
In b/w...nicely expressed ....

Sowmya said...

hey shruthi,

thanks..keep coming :)

Shiva said...

It's true that, through practice excellence becomes a way of life. Motivation initiates it though.

Nicely penned.

Sowmya said...

Shiva -- thanks :)

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