Maintaining Individual Excellence Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus defines excellence as the quality of superiority. The work excellence is synonymous with distinction‚ greatness‚ flawlessness‚ impeccability‚ and perfection (Merriam-Webster‚ 2006). The pursuit of excellence is the search for perfection. The consensus of today’s society is that nothing is perfect and perfection is unobtainable. Although that may be true‚ I believe that by reaching for excellence‚ or perfection‚ a person
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Rewarding Mediocrity is dangerous‚ especially with kids‚ because it will shape their expectation to be winning trophies in everything they attend. Because as a kid‚ they will ask themselves “ I have achieved this big trophy‚ why don’t I have this one?” and over the time there will be 2 things can happen. One is this kid will have a mindset of winning and have narcissistic about themselves about being number one‚ then when they attend a true competition or selective events‚ they will extremely disappointed
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1. Discipline 1. Discipline: Plenty of business experts claim that you can’t get anywhere as an entrepreneur without vision or creativity‚ but that’s simply not the truth. Instead‚ the one quality that no entrepreneur can be successful without is discipline. To build an idea into a business‚ you have to have the discipline to spend time slogging through the least fun parts of running a business (like the bookkeeping)‚ rather than taking that time to do something fun. When you’re the boss‚
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Promoting Nursing Excellence through Magnet and Pathways to Excellence Millicent Sabaya Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Promoting Nursing Excellence through Magnet and Pathways to Excellence Magnet Recognition programs and Pathways to excellence designations are designed by the American Nursing Credentialing Center (ANCC) to ensure that healthcare organizations achieve excellence in nursing practices and healthcare provision as a whole through the incorporation of
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The pursuit of excellence 1) Socrates did not write "Apology". Socrates did not actually write anything‚ It was his friend Plato that wrote and documented Socrates’s speeches and dialogs. The "Apology" supposes to be an accurate account by Plato of Socrates’s trial before the Athenian jury in 399BCE. The trial began with the prosecutors presenting their case against Socrates before the Athenian jury. In this trial Meletus‚ the prosecutor‚ argued that Socrates was guilty of corrupting the youth
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and enjoys a good and sustainable market’. Business excellence is often characterized by principles‚ practices and techniques in managing the organisation and achieving results‚ based on a set of fundamental concepts or values. Many countries have developed their own models and frameworks to evaluate and recognize organizations for their efforts in business excellence through awards programmes. In Singapore‚ for example‚ the Business Excellence (BE) initiative was started by Spring Singapore to assist
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on-line submission it is only necessary to type your name in this space) MODULE TITLE: Leadership & Excellence MODULE CODE: UKFM-LE 13MB02 MODULE DATE: 10 - 21 February 2014 NAME: Aishvarya Pandit TEAM: B4 THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK WMG MSc PROGRAMMES POST MODULE ASSIGNMENT LEADERSHIP & EXCELLENCE Using appropriate material from the literature‚ in no more than 3000 words answer the following question: Explain
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The definition of nursing excellence can be defined in many ways. What is common amongst all of the definitions of nursing excellence is that providing the patient with high quality compassionate care seems to be the common thread. Florence Nightingale (considered by many to be the first nursing theorist) initiated the elevation of the nursing profession by educating those in charge of caring for patients and teaching them to use the environment to assist in patient recovery. From that point on
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on self-assessment and total organizational excellence is still attracting interest from many researchers. Findings from concluded research indicate that Self-assessment methods are being used by many organizations to implement total quality management or Strategic Quality management. The technique of self-assessment is believed to be useful for any organization wishing to effectively monitor and improve its performance (Oakland‚ 2003). Several excellence models through which self-assessment is implemented
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Aristotle was correct when he said that “moral excellence comes about as a result of habit”. Religions and many successful people of the world have made a habit of committing moral acts in order to achieve their moral excellence and sense of virtue. Anyone can achieve moral excellence as long as they develop the habits that can take them to the level that they wish to reach. In the religion of Christianity Aristotle’s beliefs are intact. In the bible Christians are told of commandments that they
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