Just take a look. When you’re at a ballgame or in the grocery store or at your house of faith.
Observe how different the noses are on each of the faces. Or, the differences in the shape of the ears. Or, the varying heights of the folks in attendance. The differences are vast, beyond enumeration.
Yet, they’re all people. We recognize them as such. Why? Despite the incalculable differences, we are more alike than we are not.
Organizations have the same alike vs different dynamic.
Efforts at improvement (whether with individual people or in organizations) yield the best results when customized and personalized. Otherwise, they fall flat. Fad diets are a case in point.
A deep commitment to continuous improvement is, however, a pervasive commonality (alikeness) of high performing people and organizations. Duly noted.
Saddle up…
*If you’d like to read more of nc’s blatherings, go to nc’s Recursive Learning.
