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“Get Better at Getting Better”

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I am a hard core strengths psychology believer and given my Clifton Strengthsfinder top  5   Signature talent themes, there is no way I wouldn’t have fallen in love with this book. And if I were religious enough then I would have put and worshiped the portrait of Dr. Donald Clifton alongside Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, 2 nd Lt. Arun Khetarpal, PVC, Eric Liddle, Neerja Bhanot and my other role models. Two of the top five talent themes I have are called Maximiser and Responsibility. Maximiser is a theme that comes in the realm of influencing and Responsibility comes in that of execution. Maximiser is to do with excellence – making things better and better; continuous improvement; endless refinement; increased efficiencies and spit and polish till it shines spotlessly outlook. For us, quality matters over quantity. Of course it can at times go overboard to the point of paralysis or pointlessness. Lik...