STRETCH & RAISE THE BAR- PUSHING PERFORMANCE LIMITS

This world wouldn't be what we are today and what we will be tomorrow, but for the excellence of brilliant individuals, scientists, business persons, politicians, organizations who continuously perform at their 100% level, stretch themselves to give their best every time and continuously raise the bar to deliver better and better...    Master Mentors Advisory

Successful organizations are continuously pushing the barriers of performance. Intel coming out with faster chips, Apple Inc coming out with a newer version of iPhone every time, Microsoft coming with a better and cheaper version of Windows and the rapidly falling prices of every expanding memory chips  are a very few of the  examples we see and experience in our every day life, that is symbolic of Great Organizations.

Stretching the Limits and Raising the bar every time is woven into the fabric of thriving organizations.

While ordinary organizations wait for emergency and respond to extremely challenging situations as a fire fighting measure to stretch the performance of their systems and people, vibrant and thriving organizations challenge their human resources to continuously go for and deliver excellence. This leads not only to operational excellence, but also results in the organization remaining competitive and profitable  like Apple Inc, Microsoft, Google that have emerged stronger during extreme recessions, while those who continued to burn money and resources at the same pace or were not prepared, perished.


Stretching the performance in organizations starts by setting SMART goals.
Normally - SMART is read as Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound, in thriving organizations it is read as  SPECIFIC , ACHIEVABLE, AMBITIOUS, REALISTIC & TIME-BOUND.
The idea is to challenge the status-quo and mediocrity and keep the system dynamic and fast paced leading to a high intensity and performance.
The management not only takes extreme care in recruiting the employees with the right attitude and mind set to aim for excellence, but also keeps the system continuously oiled by regular orientation and training programs or re-skilling exercises that will help them to be prepared for the renewed challenges to the organization from its own approaches, competition and external environment.
The management and the team in thriving organization never take the ambitious goals to be unachievable or something that are for paper. The belief that they have in themselves that turns into a 'Self Fulfilling Prophecy' is a hallmark of vibrant and eminently successful teams.

While it is easier to achieve ambitious targets in a benign and high growth environment, in challenging environments and failing demand scenarios, the real calibre of the teams and their companies are truly tested separating the men from the boys.
'When the going gets tough, the tough gets going'. This is truly believed and implemented in thriving organizations.

Margin for error and in-efficiency is nil or almost negligible in thriving organizations. The quest for execution excellence and a disdain for failure or mediocrity leads the teams and individuals to success and enables them to surpass the ambitious goals set.

Once the goals are reached, the time comes for raising the bar to continue the path of excellence.
Successful organizations realize that the benchmark for success is a dynamic parameter. What is ambitious today may become a mediocre in the near future. Hence, unless we continuously improve and raise the bar every time we achieve the set goals, it is possible to start falling behind the competition and fail to survive.


This is truly one of the key secrets behind the gaining  momentum and repeated delivery of excellent performance at thriving organizations.