11 Ways to Eliminate Average

11 Ways to Eliminate Average: At a dangerously high rate, our society is inundated with average - average customer service, average response time, average intelligence, average cleanliness, average taste, average design, average technology, average sales pitch, average pair of jeans, average relationship, average conference room, average everything. When I stop to think about it, I am simply overwhelmed by the amount of mediocrity I see everywhere I go. The most frustrating part has nothing to do with the fact that the service, experience or item was less-than-stellar; rather it’s the notion that the ordinary, ho-hum version could swiftly be improved, to become extraordinary.