Invest to be the Best
Good – Better – BEST!
What’s it worth to be the best? How much should you invest to become the best? Those are great questions.
To answer them, you must consider the advantages of being the best. These advantages include the hidden advantages the best have by achieving excellence.
Consider these four advantages…
1. Reputation
One of the biggest advantages of being the best is the reputation of being the best.
The best sports teams enter the playing field with a clear advantage. They:
- Mentally dominate the other team before the game starts.
- Set the tempo of the game.
- Make the other team play to their strengths.
- Emphasize the opponent’s weaknesses.
That provides them with a clear advantage in the competition.
2. Culture
The reputation of being the best tends to breed a culture of excellence. People in the best organizations don’t accept being second best. This culture helps the best stay the best, and that’s an invaluable advantage.
3. Avoiding Complacency
You won’t be on the top for long if you become complacent. Leaders of the “best” constantly encourage their teams to be even better. They know that excellence is a continuing journey. The best teams don’t rest on their laurels.
Some may think that constantly striving to improve is expensive. Of course, striving to be the best has a cost. But striving to improve and be even better is a hidden advantage. People who work at the best companies don’t waste time justifying their efforts, arguing against false cost savings, and dealing with the turmoil of constant downsizing and needless reorganizations.
People at the best companies always look for ways to improve because that is their heritage. It becomes a standard part of how they do business.
4. Cost Savings
Being the best is cheaper than being second best and much cheaper than being the worst. This is a counter-intuitive result of being the best. How does this work?
The best companies don’t have:
- Unexpected equipment outages,
- Devastating safety accidents,
- Expensive environmental releases and EPA fines, or
- Costly product recalls..
How do they avoid these problems? Because the best use TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis to analyze precursor incidents and proactively apply TapRooT® RCA when performing audits. This helps them avoid major accidents
What if something goes wrong? The best are better equipped to deal with an emergency. Partially because government regulators and the public “cut them slack” because of their excellent reputation. But also because the best are better prepared to deal with the unexpected.
The Best Attend the Summit
The best are always looking for best practices to implement and lessons learned from others. And surprisingly, the best also look to benchmark their performance against others.
Where do the best share their best practices, benchmark, and learn from others’ lessons learned? At the 2025 Global TapRooT® Summit being held on September 29 – October 3 in Knoxville, TN, at the Knoxville Convention Center.
Why do the best invest in the Summit? First, they appreciate the inspiration and motivation they get from the Keynote Speakers.
Second, they learn so much from the networking, benchmarking, and best practice sharing that occurs in the eight Best Practice Tracks:
CLICK HERE for more information about each track including the nine sessions in each track..
What if you want to attend sessions in a couple of different tracks? NO PROBLEM! You can customize your Summit experience by selecting the sessions from multiple tracks.
Third, the best know about the unique learning opportunities at the pre-Summit Courses. Emily and Alex outline the eleven 2-day pre-Summit Courses in this video…
Get more information about each course by CLICKING HERE.
The Best Bring a Team
The best don’t become the best by working solo. They have improvement teams. They know the advantages of bringing their improvement team to the Global TapRooT® Summit and a pre-Summit Courses.
What are some of the advantages?
- Being able to attend more Best Practice Track sessions.
- Having a broader opportunity to network.
- Working together to develop their Roadmap to Success.
- Having a team to work on implementing ideas when they return to work.
- Getting discounts for bringing a team (see below).
Register Now!
REGISTER now to ensure you get the pre-Summit Course of your choice (seats are limited).
