Understanding Excellence

Vinod Shah

I-Excellence is more than genius

Actor Genius
1914: Keystone, $150 a week 1915: Essanay Studios, of Chicago, $1250 a week, & $10,000 bonus 1916: Mutual, $10,000 a week, & $150,000 signing bonus 1917: First National, $1 million deal the first actor ever !!

Bridged the generation gap!!

1918, Chaplin(28) married the 16-year-old Mildred At 35, he married the16-year-old Lita Grey after she became pregnant.. Divorced 2 years later. He was 47 when he secretly married the 25 year old Paulette Goddard in June 1936. Chaplin briefly dated and married actress Joan Barry, but ended it when she started harassing him. Shortly thereafter, he met Oona O'Neill, and married her on June 16, 1943. He was 54; she was 17.

Charlie Chaplin in a fury at a hotel when he was not recognized.

I am going home Get me 12 taxis. One to ride in and.. The others as escort

Flawed character
Busy developing an image rather than character

Marlene Dietrich German American screen goddess

Would insist on playing both sides of a record full of nothing but applause Applause in Rio.. Applause in Cologne.. Applause in Chicago..

Mozart in his letter to his father..

I am never in a good humor when I am in a town where I am not recognized (1778)

Genius is what you have..

Excellence is what you do with it. Parable of the talents- 5,2 and one

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662 Brilliant physicist, mathematician & Theologian Pascals laws, Hydraulic principle & calculating machine Vacuum/Barometer

Author and a philosopher

Wrote the Provincial lettersthat Voltaire called the "the best-written book that has yet appeared in France Pascal's Penses is widely considered to be a masterpiece, Will Durant, in his 11volume, comprehensive The Story of Civilization series, hailed it as "the most eloquent book in French prose."[

What he did with his genius was excellence

Man of profound faith and a brilliant apologetic Attacked the heresy in the Catholic church and got the Pope to reform the doctrine of Janeses.

 II-Activism is not excellence

A great and a beautiful activist

Princess Diana- the most photographed woman in the world

Excellence versus activism

Clandestine visits to Mildmay hospital to see AIDS patients who were terminally ill

Diana the peoples princess

With landmine survivors in Bosnia

Landmine bill passed in 1998

Excellence marred by Personal insecurity

James Hewitt James Gilby Oliver Hoare

If only..
Will Carling Hasnat Khan Dodi Fayad

Pro life activist kills..

The state of Florida executed Paul Hill in September 2003 for the 1994 abortion clinic murders of physician John Britton of Fernandina Beach and retired Air Force Lt. Col. James Barrett of Pensacola.

Prolife activism or any other form of activism in itself is not excellence

Dr David Gunn an abortionist murdered by Michael Griffith in 1993

He reformed the world

A picture of excellence
1805- Slavery was abolished 1813-Mandatory for the East India company to make caring and missionary work a part of the British mandate for India. Reformation of the living conditions of the poor SPCA

William Wilberforce
his first anti-slavery motion in the House of Commons in 1788, in a three-and-a-half hour oration that concluded: "Sir, when we think of eternity and the future consequence of all human conduct, what is there in this life that shall make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice and the law of God!"

Activism with a difference

Perseverance

Character

Courage of his conviction

Community

III-Efficiency in itself does not constitute excellence

Excellence is not efficiency/Output

Excellence is related to outcome

The issue, Hummel said, is not so much a shortage of time as a problem of priorities. Or, as a cotton mill manager once told him, "Your greatest danger is letting the urgent things crowd out the important."

Gullivers travel
Jonathan Swift

 In Gulliver's Travels, he records his hero's capture by the Lilliputians. Fascinated by Gulliver's clothing, the Lilliputians note:
Out of his pocket hung a great silver chain; which appeared to be a globe, half silver, and half of some transparent metal we think that it is the god that he worships; He called it his oracle, and said it pointed the time for every action of his life.

Tyranny of the urgent

"He that is everywhere is nowhere." Thomas Fuller, 17th century historian, scholar, and author Unsuccessful organizations are often beehives of activity and hard work.

Jesus and the death of Lazarus

Pablo Picasso was a very busy man

The Guinness Book of Records names Picasso as the most prolific painter ever In his lifetime, he produced around 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints and engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures.

Spearheaded and defined the periods

Blue period; Rose period L'Accordoniste, a 1911 cubist painting by Picasso. Surrealism

A certain lack His torrid personal life His lack of meaning specially during the last decade Picasso also made the comment, " Women are either Goddesses or doormats."

A certain lack
Disrespect for peopleAs far as I'm concerned, other people are like those little grains of dust in the sunlight. It only takes a push of the broom and out they go." A spirit of competition

Understanding excellence IV-Think potential not competition

Vision statementExample from Lincoln Electric Lincoln Electric will be the undisputed world leader in the industry as measured by global sales volume.

Excellence is about maximizing potential

Park University will be a renowned international leader in providing innovative educational opportunities for learners within the global society.

Competing with oneself rather with the others

Games were meant to celebrate human achievement rather than overcome fellow players Business should learn from competitors to push their own boundaries Collaboration and networking is a sign of excellence rather than just overcoming competition .

Prayer and competition

Luke 18:10-14: "Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortionists, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

Two people went to pray..

One was trying to compete with himself.. overcoming his sins.. The other was in competition.. I am glad I am not like this man Excellence is stretching your own boundaries

Competing against yourself

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) US clergyman, abolitionist

V-Excellence has to do with relationships

I will show you a more excellent waySt Paul I Cor:12.31

Working with emotional intelligence

EQ is more important than IQ EQ is related to empathy Empathy is related to listening with understanding

Listening and Emotional quotient..

It has been proven that EQ is more important than IQ because life is basically composed of relationships with other people. In other words someone who knows how to relate to others is better equipped for life than someone who is only a math wiz.

Listening and Emotional quotient

On page eighteen of his book, Daniel Goldman makes this statement: Genetic inheritance gives us a series of emotional qualities that determine our temperament. But the implied brain circuit is extremely malleable; temperament is not destiny Listening with understanding can influence the brain circuit

Excellence is aural rather than oral

Aural means listening and listening means learning Oral- people who talk more than listen tend to be mediocre 20/80 ratio or the 80/20 ratio?

Vincent Van Gogh

Did not listen to his brother and tried to be a teacher Did not listen to his family and tried to be a preacher Finally ...suicide

VI-Excellence is not simply discipline

It is relevance!!

Excellence is not excessive austerity/religiosity

St.Simeon spent 68 years on a pillar after he lost his first tooth Excellence is about being relevant

Relevance

AIIMS,New Delhi

Christian Medical College, Vellore

How relevant are we to the world?

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. Charles Dudley Warner, 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873 US editor & essayist (1829 1900 Be in the world and not of the world..

SUMMARY
Sum total of many things and not any one in particular: Not just genius Not just activism Is about potential and not about competition Not just efficiency Is about EQ Not just religiosity but about relevance

Ascent of a leader Bill,Bruce and Ken

Character and Capacity ladders should be integrated.