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What Does Excellence Look Like?

March 17, 2015 Bernard Hill

My friend Ian coined the Deperdussin Theory.

The Deperdussin was the first aircraft to serve in the Australian Flying Corps, the predecessor to the Royal Australian Air Force. The Theory is that if a lost tribe looked up through the forest canopy and saw a Deperdussin flying overhead (max speed 210 km/h), they would declare it was the most remarkable and awe inspiring magic flying machine. It would become the benchmark against which they would measure everything else they saw or did.

Only because they'd never seen an F-111 (max speed 2665 km/h).
 

What does 'Excellence' look like?

It looks like the last thing that we thought was excellent.

So boss you'd better hope that it was an F-111 and not a Deperdussin.

Or better still - don't assume we know what you mean by Excellent. Instead, show us your Excellent. Or whatever other Adjective you want us to be.

(I think that's called 'Leadership'.)

And boss - keep innovating your Excellence because the RAAF retired the F-111 from service 18 months ago.

(Even good theories need updating.)

 

In Change, Leadership, Military, Words Matter
← The Widget Can Be Made to Measure.Lead Us to The Widget. →

'Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. It needs to be taught explicitly to everyone in organizations that are based on knowledge.' Peter Drucker.

Contact me to help you equip your organisation with the crucial skill of good decision making.

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Bernard Hill

Full time husband and father of two girls.     Part time Consultant, Legal Counsel, Facilitator, Workshop Presenter.                       Occasional Air Force Squadron Leader.              A conversation with a 12 year old girl remains my best lesson in Leadership.

30 years of assisting military commanders, judges, entrepreneurs, an abbot, bishops, vice-chancellors and chief executives to make decisions, and making lots of my own, have taught me the principles of making good ones.

I want to share with you what I know.

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Email: bernard@bernardhill.com  


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