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Excellence, Integrity, and Standards
Human beings are drawn to excellence, integrity and high standards. We know it when we see it. We are naturally attracted to these qualities. They are easy words to say, and sometimes harder words to live, especially consistently. Yet, when we do live these words, there are great rewards -- externally and internally. People admire and trust those who exude these qualities, and want to associate with them and buy their products and services. Yet, perhaps the biggest reward of all is a "deeper and more respectful connection" to ourselves, and a greater sense of personal power and fulfillment. Sometimes the short-term pain is worth the long-term gain.
Sales Success TIPS - from a Waitress?
Long ago, before restaurants and hotels told us how much we “owe” in tips and gratuities, a tip was always given up front. It still is in some locations (e.g., some doormen and concierges and maitre d’s). Why? TIPS stands for To Insure Proper Service.

Why Bother With Distributed Leadership?
There are many ways to measure alignment. But you can only achieve alignment across the board through distributed leadership. Implementing such strategies develops leadership in each unit of your operation and at different levels of your organization. You actually end up empowering employees to act and give them the knowledge about what must be done.

'How do you explain NLP to others?'
Here's a straightforward, practical and easy-to-digest way of explaining what NLP is, at its core. This description has been used very successfully by NLP enthusiasts with many, many skeptics around the world. Enjoy!
Most Companies Get Leadership Wrong
Most companies take a good approach to developing leaders, but generally miss the point. There's a lot of emphasis placed on good decision making, effective communication, and team building. And all those are important, but don't address what matters most.
Striving for Excellence
Excellence…it’s a concept that seems to have escaped much of the modern world. We live in a culture where “good enough” will get you by, and many believe that “good enough” is worthy of some reward. The idea that you should always do your best in everything you do has become a rare quality in this present age, and for many is merely a quaint memory of the way the world once was.

Hunger Pains
Can mediocrity dull the hunger pains for excellence? Can accepting the status quo doom your team to mediocrity? Staying hungry for that which provides the most benefit is extremely challenging and often illusive to many organizations. There are many factors that contribute to lost hunger. This article will focus on some common reasons we lose the drive toward excellence. Though not exhaustive, your team can certainly reach break-through by addressing these individually and collectively.

Beware the Wannabees
In nature, many creatures have copied the characteristics of other more beneficial organisms. Insects and animals copying color patterns are all wannabees in the natural world. This phenomenon is not unique to the animal world and is very common in the world of business. If something is perceived as successful, imitators are quick to appear and may even be hard to differentiate from the original source. We see this in business plans, logos, products and even training. Once successful, others are certainly going to follow. The very rules of nature apply to the everyday challenge your business faces. This path of least resistance is similar to following a trail through the jungle that was blazed by the hard work and creativity of others.
Always Do It the Right Way.
Always doing things the right way is the most efficient and productive means of achieving anything, but the way they are done affects our attitude and spirit each time we see it.

MAINTAINING EXCELLENCE WITHIN YOUR COMPANY: PART 1
MAINTAINING EXCELLENCE WITHIN YOUR COMPANY: PART 1
Ready, Set, Go! Get Strategic on Values
Imagine this...your company spends dollars, time and energy to refine your mission, vision and values in a long needed retreat to reorient the team toward business success. Similar to the evangelist that comes to town to rev everyone up, the passion can often dissipate as the evangelist’s tent is disassembled and goes off to the next town. How can the passion become self-sustaining long after the retreat and into the future? The answer rests in getting and remaining strategic around the values you and your charges spend so much time identifying and marketing.

Excellence on a Small Scale
Excellence isn't limited to the Fortune 500. Often, the best experiences are in the smallest places.
Lessons on Excellence
The Road to "the Top" comes through constant practice and is paved by the pursuit of excellence. Remember, mediocrity is miles from excellence. Mediocrity is easy, unnoticed, uninspiring, and boring. Excellence is difficult, visible, inspiring and fun.
Smart Women Step Into Their Gift
This article is about the importance of exploring and discovering your gift. Being able to offer your gift to the world and live in your genius is the path to a truly meaningful and fulfilled life.

8 Ways Leaders Build Culture
The culture of an organization is something that is highly impacted by the actions and words of leaders. This article describes what makes up the culture and 8 things leaders can do to improve it.

Acres of Diamonds
Your greatest opportunities lie under your own feet. They lie in your intellect, your talent and abilities, your education and experience, as well as with your family members, friends and business contacts. The challenge is that in the rough, a diamond does not look like a diamond that we are familiar with. It looks like a black, rough piece of rock and must be cut, shaped and polished repeatedly before it glistens like the valuable stone that it is.

NLP Model of Communication--4 Pillars to Getting Desired Results
NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is an approach to understanding and directing human experience, communication and behaviour. Find out what the 4 Pillars of NLP are and how knowing them can help you create the results you want in your life.

NLP--The Study of Excellence in Communication
NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is an approach to understanding and directing human experience, communication and behaviour. Find out why NLP is important to know about, what it is and how knowing NLP can help you get what you want in life.
Marketing By Method Versus Vision
The companies that make a real impact in the marketplace are not the ones that produce what people think they want, but rather the ones that produce what people will want but don’t know it. The ability to know what people will want before they know it exists is not a result of intensive market research, focus groups, or telemarketing surveys. Knowing what people want is based on understanding the human condition: the motivating factors that move people from disinterest to action. Steve Jobs was unrelenting in this philosophy and it resulted in changing the computer, music, movie, and telecommunication industries and more significantly how people live, work, communicate, relax, and in some ways, think.

Doing Customer Service Right!
The way to keep customer and grow your market share will revolve on how you treat both current and potential customers. It would seem that during the holiday season this notion becomes clearer to me. Unfortunately during the holiday months companies hire more seasonal workers and the quality of customer care (mostly in retail) plummets.

Award Winning Disaster
Even large corporations can make marketing blunders in their pursuit of excellence. The example and principles here can help you gain a realistic perspective. There is a lesson here we can all learn from. You should not have your desire for growth and good marketing used against you.
The 3 Secrets to becoming a Sales SUPERSTAR
There are 3 secrets all salespeople must know to become a SUPERSTAR in the new economy. Sean Moffett breaks them down.
Execution - Kill IT!
Excellence is a choice. A choice we must make. It is our responsibility to live beyond our potential to realize the true greatness we all have been given.
Expertise and the "IT" factor
Often I am asked how to ensure success. To me the heart of the matter is always a matter of heart. We look to successful people with awe and reverence as if the most successful people have some magic formula. The formula lays within you. It is your IT factor.
Business and Life Strategies Taught by a 6 Year Old
Everything I forgot about living I am re-learning from my kids. Childlike wonder is a rare commodity.
You are! Whether you like it or not.
We are all leaders. We may not be good at it or see ourselves that way but we are. Even if your title or roll professionally doesn’t include a leadership component you are still a leader.
It's Time for Excellence
You no longer can afford average. The global economic recession has taken “average” out at the knees. Where average was a safe place to land it is now a recipe for disaster.

Other excellence Related Articles

Organizational Excellence
Excellence everywhere does not just happen simply because an organization has a good product or offers a needed service. The underlying purpose of all organizational actions must have excellence built into them. It must become “how we collectively do things.”
What Can Managers Do To Instill Excellence
Excellence everywhere does not just happen simply because an organization has a good product or offers a needed service. The underlying purpose of all organizational actions must have excellence built into them. It must become “how we collectively do things.”

Excellence vs. Perfection
At some point, we have to settle for "excellence" and go for it! I'm not talking about being sloppy or settling for mediocrity, but in most cases, excellence is good enough.

The 19Es of Excellence
Today's joyous commemoration of the birth of Dr Martin Luther King Jr and tomorrow's unique show of peaceful American renewal and celebration of limitless American possibility got me thinking about Excellence—no surprise. Out of which came these "19 Es of Excellence."

Are you inspiring excellence?
As an excellence advocate, one of your responsibilities is to inspire excellence in other people – especially those who work with you and for you. Excellence in the workplace leads to higher profits, higher job satisfaction ratings, and higher employee morale. Are you inspiring excellence? If not, then this article will show you how to start spreading the excellence around.
ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE THROUGH TOTAL COMMITMENT
Excellence is an excellent word and excellent companies strive for achieving it. Many factors contribute to the excellence of companies chief among them is employee’s commitment. Without commitment no company can think of achieving excellence. Commitment is rather a key ingredient for improving quality and productivity, reducing defects, increasing profitability and decreasing costs.

Instilling Pride ~ A Key to Eliciting Excellence
Eliciting excellence in others is the essence of leadership, and one of the most effective means of eliciting excellence is to instill a sense of pride in those around us. Instilling pride has a myriad of benefits - quality of work and workmanship improves, creativity and innovation increases, collaboration is facilitated more easily, and people are willing to "go the extra mile" to do their best.
Expecting Excellence - A Key to Effective Leadership
The idea of expecting excellence isn't new, nor is the premise that every leader should expect excellence from his or her team. But just like everything a leader says and does, it's not so much a matter of "what" he or she does as much as it is about "how" they do what they do. There's a significant difference between establishing an environment where excellence is expected and one where excellence is demanded.
Lessons on Excellence
The Road to "the Top" comes through constant practice and is paved by the pursuit of excellence. Remember, mediocrity is miles from excellence. Mediocrity is easy, unnoticed, uninspiring, and boring. Excellence is difficult, visible, inspiring and fun.
How to Encourage Higher Sales Performance
Excellence in a sales organization means different things to different individuals and sales managers. Todays, sales manager must ensure that all individuals meet organizational criteria. This includes adhering to policies while also meeting and exceeding sales goals. The only way to ensure that people create excellence is by creating excellence in people.
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