The Excellence Trap

Charism Advisors are the first to diagnose the trap of excellence that holds back all high-achieving leaders and organizations, and the first to create a unique path to Leadership Mastery.

Excellence is a sham, a dead end. It doesn’t deliver on its promises, and it hurts in particular people who have the best intentions, the greatest talent, and the greatest commitment to achieve great things. The irony is that the costs of excellence only become apparent after one has accomplished much.

The Excellence Trap is a paradigm-making idea. It goes like this: Excellence has built-in dynamics that limit our achievements via low returns, high costs, merely marginal competitive advantage, incrementalism, and unsustainability. A merely excellent business is severely hampered. Excellence is the largest hidden cost in business, and it is slowly killing us, our people, and our businesses. And no one is immune.