When Precision meets with Accuracy, Excellence is born.
In management , the highest level of excellence is measured mathematically through Six Sigma. It's the closest any firm can get to excellence.
Perfection is an infinite chase but excellence can be reached. But *the trick is to aim for perfection and if you fail, you'd at least land on excellence*.
Excellence is the most powerful competitive advantage, especially in today's world that lacks it. Most of us are far behind. In our country and world of gross mediocrity, it should inspire us to know that there are companies in the world with 1 million assembly line products daily and no defect in any. Now thats excellence.
There are only a few companies in the world with that level of Six Sigma excellence (Bank of America, Amazon, Nestle, Boeing). Take for example, In a Boeing analysis that compares their product with Volvo and Rolls Royce ( two of the safest cars), did you know that the mathematical odds of dying in a car crash is one in a 5,000 trips? But for a plane crash , it is one for every 1.2 million flights, with odds of dying to be one in 11 million. Where am I going to with this? #Excellence
There's so much we can do with data as a metaphor for how excellent some people have become.
_Six Sigma is a maths concept and also a management methodology which allows companies to use data to eliminate defects in any process to near perfection. I pray a Nigerian company gets here. _
For a process to have achieved Six Sigma, a process must not produce a defect - that is anything outside of customer specifications - more often than 3.4 times per million opportunities. Only a few companies
Its better to be accurate than precise. But it is the precision in the consistent accuracy inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is hard to imagine the excellence of Mona Lisa's painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, Picasso's, Guernica, any of Michelangelo's work, or Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte, and later the magnificent Chateau de Versailles. You think of these guys with no sophisticated softwares, no high hill to stand on, no helicopter to fly in, and no drone to show him the complexities of the terrain. Yet they did, and with extreme precision, accuracy, and high style. The world still needs this kind of habits.
Eizu, ©Hexavia!
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