BE GOOD ENOUGH TO GET BETTER
The challenge for any high performing individual, team or organisation is to embrace humility over hubris, curiosity over cockiness and excellence over entitlement. That’s the path to sustained greatness.
When you’re setting the benchmark for others, your biggest danger is not your competition, the economy, or your marketplace; it’s lowering your standards, tolerating mediocrity, or becoming arrogant.
Success encourages ego, ego encourages complacency, and complacency is usually followed by atrophy. To grow as a person and fulfill your potential as a leader, you must be good enough to get better.
How do you know if you’re good enough to get better? You’re more interested in being a ‘learn it all’ rather than a ‘know it all’.
INSPIRATION FROM OTHERS
“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
QUESTIONS TO REFLECT ON
- Would your colleagues describe you as more of a ‘learn it all’ or a ‘know it all’?
- Have your successes made you cocky and complacent or more curious and committed than ever?
- What is one area of your life where you are committed to pursue excellence?
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