Are you honoring your volunteers by allowing them to target excellence in what they do?

Tony Dye recently posted an article titled “Adequate”:

“Why don’t we have excellent? Perhaps three reasons: 1) We don’t know of excellent solutions. 2) If they existed, they’d probably be very expensive. 3) Most of the time, we wouldn’t know excellent if it hit us in the face!”

Kevin McCord followed up with a comment on Tony’s post:

“I’m more concerned with the word “settle” then with the word adequate.
I like adequate. My car is adequate. My house is adequate.
Sometimes the excellent solution implemented means only an adequate job in terms of cost and time to delivery.
Settling implies you are stuck at adequate and I sometimes think adequate is the starting point. It is the end of phase 1.
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How do you view excellence? How do you support targeting excellence in your team? Let us know by posting a comment.

This is part 3 in a 7 part series on Honoring Your Volunteers