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Have
you ever come across anyone who is a perfectionist or a boss who constantly
talk about excellence?? I have, both, many times 😁
Perfectionist
people are at the top of the toxic people grade list, with 75% toxicity. Boss
is a massacre, he will give you an assignment and constantly stand behind your
back looking at your work with constant fault finding. This is the worst kind
of Boss possible. And if your wife or spouse is one, it's pure murder.
Actually there is no perfect person or system anywhere, but these people make it their lifelong mission to search for one. I had been a systems guy, by initial training in Computer science and Engineering and also later experience of more than an era, that the myth of a perfect system is a blatant lie, all systems fail, period. But the quality of a system can be judged by the frequency, and the speed of recovery. I have seen such bugs in very good running system that can be equated with a couple of timers coming out of my kitchen. So, don't expect any person to be perfect too, and even, not the Gods, try our great books, starting with their King Indra.
So,
taking out the possibility of perfection, we come to the question of
excellence. But most often than not, at least in the corporate, people who talk
about excellence only do or mean it for others, not quite themselves. It's a
easy stick to bear others with, and also a nice ploy to ride the moral high
horse, these very people you will often find are imposters and masked Mr.
Hyde.
But
of course excellence comes in different areas, the way they make a Ferrari
or Rolls, the way a Cartier Jewelry is produced. There are thousands of
examples, but the time, the patience, the resources, the support, the
unwavering loyalty to absolute quality and reputation mark these examples. For
those in your company will shout on the need for excellence without any of
those, and that marks the death of irony a thousand times. It's like Cleopatra,
the nose that caused a thousand sails 😂 But sometimes, some
people try to be a bit honest too, like one of my old Bosses, an extraordinary
gentleman. He generally loved me, but one day in the middle of a heated
argument he threw up his hands " I don't need flashes of brilliance, I
need consistent mediocrity" , later I thought out that he was perfectly
sensible from his position.
I, personally, strongly believe that more than excellence or anything else, forget perfection, comes survival first, excellence comes much later
