In search for excellence
Ξ March 11th, 2008 | → | ∇ Apprendre, Reflexion |
A long time ago, my father gave me a book. Since this was a unique event in our relationship, I obviously read it. The book was In search of Excellence. All is in the title…
The book has probably influenced a generation of American engineers and managers in the 80s. It deals with the quest for excellence in life as the ultimate goal. I particularly liked a story about the excellence achieved by the doorman of a known hotel that remembers the names and faces of all his customers. When the author visited this hotel 10 years later, the doorman still remembered his name…
For a long time I looked for a book having the right to sit near my In search of Excellence. And in order to give one to my father.
I think I have found it (thanks to my friend Arnaud).
The book is Getting things done, the art of stress-free productivity. Again, everything is in the title. This book offers a method and numerous tips to eliminate what clutters our minds, increases our stress, reduces our productivity and leads to failures. The book is clear, the method difficult, and the potential immense.
More than anything else, this book, though having a less noble title than the one of my father’s book, it has the same quality and pretentiousness: trying to improve our self makes us better in all that we do: With yourself, your family, your friends, At work, at home, on vacation, in what we know already and in what we will discover in the future.
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on March 20th, 2008 at 16:36
Y en a t il beaucoup qui peuvent se vanter d’un tel heritage que celui de la recherche de l’excellence?