The Excellence Book: 104 Principles for Living and Working

About this book

Excellence is a universal standard of achievement against which no one will argue. But what is excellence? How is excellence implemented in business and in life? How do you manage excellence? This book provides answers to those questions and more. The author sets out 104 principles concerning excellence in an organization within a team and as a personal standard of conduct. Each one-sentence principle has a short single-paragraph explanation. The principles are direct easy to understand and easy to remember. They can be used in company newsletters training materials and e-mail messages to employees. They apply in business in government in education in religion and in the home. This pocket-size book begins with Principle 1 "To excel is to do better today than you did yesterday" and concludes with Principle 104 "Planted in the soul of each individual is the seed of greatness." There are principles regarding excellence and change and excellence in adversity. There are excellence principles for avoiding stagnation and resisting mediocrity.