Striving towards Excellence

-Karthik Gurumurthy

I love reading the works of Dr. John C. Maxwell. All his books focusses on leadership and leading from the front. To be a leader, one has to be constantly on the move, engaged, working on execution, learning and making appropriate changes to improve performance constantly.

One of the stories he shares about the turkey chatting it up with the bull. “I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree,” sighed the turkey, “but I haven’t got the energy.”

“Well,” replied the bull, “why don’t you nibble on some of my droppings? They’re packed with nutrients.”

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch on the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, there he was proudly perched on top of the tree. But he was promptly spotted by a hunter, who shot him down out of the tree.

What is the moral of the story?: BS might get you to the top, but it won’t keep you there.