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Personal excellence
This document discusses the concept of personal excellence. It provides several definitions and perspectives on excellence from different authors. Robert Quinn defines excellence as a form of deviance, where one achieves excellence by choosing a difficult and risky path that others are unwilling to take. The document also references Charles Handy's sigmoid curve, which illustrates that organizations must prepare for change as they near their peak, and stresses the importance of integrity and discipline.
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- 1. Personal Excellence BretL. Simmons, Ph.D. Estate Planning Source September 23, 2014
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- 8. “People do theright thing even when no one is looking over their shoulder” (Sutton & Rao, 1994)
- 9. Robert Quinn Excellenceis a form of deviance…You become excellent because you are doing things normal people do not want to do. You become excellent by choosing a path that is risky and painful, a path that is not appealing to others.
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- 13. Yesterday’s home runsdon’t win today’s games Babe Ruth
- 14. Sigmoid Curve (CharlesHandy) Sigmoid Curve (Charles Handy, 1995)
- 15. Discipline of TheSecond Curve “..always assume that we are near the peak of the first curve and should therefore be starting to prepare for the second” (p.57)
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- 31. Excellence is aform of deviance DO things others are not willing to do
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