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The Paradox of Excellence
The better you perform, the more invisible you become — to everything but bad news.
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The Paradox of Excellence
The better you perform, the more invisible you become — to everything but bad news.
It sounds wrong until you have lived it. Every high performer, reliable executive, and person taken for granted at the moment they most deserved recognition knows exactly what it means.
The Paradox of Excellence names a dynamic most organizations never acknowledge: excellence, consistently delivered, eventually disappears from view. Success resets the baseline. Prevention stays invisible. One failure can erase a hundred unseen wins.
Published by John Wiley / Jossey-Bass. Twenty years in print. Seven languages.
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The Abiding Tree
For the giver who has lost the ability to feel their own impact.
Not every important idea arrives as an argument. Some arrive as a story.
The Abiding Tree is a picture-book parable for the weary — for the person who has given so much to others that they can no longer feel what they have made possible.
It is a small book that carries a large truth.
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