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I have looked around the planet, read many stories, seen many successful people and I am moved to say beyond all doubt that the reasons why people fly high and are recognized is because they ALWAYS do things differently in a positive way. I call it doing things with a TOUCH OF CLASS. This certainly is another way of describing EXCELLENCE. Excellence is that extra bit that makes what men do outstanding. Facebook is an excellent platform because it added juice to what yahoo and Hotmail have been doing for years – social media. I will get back to this in a jiffy. Who wants to see the same old things? As it is often said that it is pure madness to keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. Why does APPLE stand out in IT? What does its 'THINK DIFFERENT' campaign mean to its global brand? Better still what can be implied from those two words that capture the essence of their brand? I KNOW beyond all doubt that there are many creative people. In fact every man is creative in their own right, however what will make you out standing is HOW you do things!
EVERY man STANDS by doing things. FEW men stand OUT because they do things EXCELLENTLY.
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| Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs |
Identify the guys above? They are in a class of their own. They define innovation and pure class. The 21st century is fed up of mediocrity. The landscape is for the HIGH FLYERS, those who have courage in what they are doing and can do them with that touch of class.
GET YOUR GAME ON AND FLY AT THE HIGHEST ALTITUDE. EXCELLENCE IS THE TRIPOD OF INNOVATION
We live in the JET AGE. Jets fly higher than planes anywhere and anytime and are faster too. If planes represent invention, jets are certainly in the class of innovation. After all jets came along only when the Wright brothers invented planes, and several other life changing products came out from the works of these great inventors. EXCELLENCE IS A SHIFT IN PERSPECTIVE
Let me drive home my point on this ground – there is nothing particularly new under the face of the sun. Every new thing you see is an off-shoot of something that already exists. Invention is not necessarily the key to ‘greatness’, innovation is. Invention could take you a life time, innovation will not take as long, yet if properly executed takes the shine off invention. Yahoo and Hotmail have been in the game for ages. Online chatting started with them. Social networking tool sprouted from this point. Hi5 and others came to the fore with connecting friends around the world - just a twist to what Yahoo and Hotmail had going. Facebook came up and in less than five years has become the third largest country in the world, connecting everyone that cares to be a part from all over the globe. Facebook was not an invention. Chatting by yahoo and Hotmail was, Facebook is the definition of innovation. There are thousands of other examples we need to see in this light to start thinking differently.
Therefore invention is not the same thing as innovation, innovation fits more into the fast paced 21st century world. Sit back, think hard, innovate and you could hit the next blockbuster product that will change the world. In academics, the next ground breaking research will be hinged on innovation. Nothing new out there, just the way men work with what exists to create new things. In conclusion, be it in academics, sports or whatever career you are into, get your INNOVATION on top gear.
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
ReplyDeleteWOW...very well spoken. Even the least of what we can ever be given to do should be done with excellence and innovation. Anything, Anything, Anything at all. many thanks for your insightful comment. Deeply appreciated.
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