Book Features

So what separates the really great from the merely good?

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Discover the new language of leadership

Leadership today requires a new language that embraces diversity, empathy, vulnerability, and a growth mindset to inspire and empower others.

Challenge your personal mindset

Challenging your personal mindset means breaking free from limiting beliefs to foster growth, innovation, and greater self-awareness.

Engage hearts; heads and hands in meaningful work

To engage hearts, heads, and hands in meaningful work, leaders need to create a compelling vision, build trust, and encourage autonomy

Develop the systems required for Deep Excellence

Developing systems for Deep Excellence requires a culture of continuous improvement, clear processes, measurement, feedback, and learning from failures.

FOREWORD

Deep Excellence is a book about people, human nature, humanity and preparing for the future. Written in a thoughtful, unpretentious, and empathetic style, the authors usher the reader through a story of learning, challenging current mental models, provoking new ways of thinking and acting with purpose. Read full foreword

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What Business Leaders Say

Business leaders from around the world give their thoughts on the new book

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Eamonn Dunlea

Eamonn Dunlea

Digital & Production Optimisation Partner major Scandinavian dairy group

All the organisations, that I have worked over the last 40 years, have struggled with communication and getting a deep understanding of problems and their sources. This book tackles these issues head on. It takes the reader on a fascinating journey from understanding how we think, and why we think the way we do, through to developing the radical positive behaviours required in today’s workplaces, by developing skills in the new language of leadership. This book is packed with useful ideas, insights and models to guide and inspire everyone who works in individual, group or organisational settings.

Lacy Garner

Lacy Garner

Program Manager, Central Operations - IRI

Deep Excellence: Seeing and hearing a culture of deep excellence comes at a time when the need for sustainability in organizations is greater than ever before. I was thoroughly impressed by the insights and practical advice it provides. The book delves into the various challenges that organizations face when improving culture and performance and offers concrete strategies for addressing them. I also appreciate the book's focus on the role of leadership. It shows how the systems and processes in place within an organization can either support or undermine the culture you are trying to build. By understanding the impact of these systems, leaders can make more informed decisions about how to design and implement them in a way that supports the culture they want to create. Overall, I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to improve their organization's performance in a sustainable way. It offers valuable insights and practical guidance for achieving excellence. This book is a timely and valuable resource that should not be missed.

Mike Larkin

Mike Larkin

Director People & Organisation Development

Leaders now have a new moral obligation to eliminate waste and reduce resource usage in their organizations. This book provides an excellent practical guide on how to achieve this.

Prof. Dr. Richard Keegan

Prof. Dr. Richard Keegan

Adjunct Associate Professor of Lean Operations Excellence, Trinity Business School, Trinity College, Dublin

This is a deep, interesting and challenging read….especially if you have some lean experience…..it gets you thinking again!”

Elizabeth O’Callaghan

Elizabeth O’Callaghan

PhD Scholar, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, Co. Limerick, Ireland.

“INSPIRATIONAL with a SLEEK STRUCTURE” “Deep Excellence” by John Quirke is a worthwhile easy to read corporate book with clear step by step illustrations.. The book pleasantly surprised me by the level of detail about evolutionary psychology, structure of our brain, leadership, work environment, purpose, the science of talking and resilience, deployment of ideal behaviors incorporating the Shingo model and a roadmap for successful change. From someone who has read a lot of academic literature over the years, “Deep Excellence” is by far the most intuitive book I have read: moreover, staying current in this research niche and field of organisational culture. “Deep Excellence” was crucial in helping me understand the link between head, heart and hands in a corporate results-based environment and where priorities must start for ideal results. A book truly committed to leading an enterprise on a journey to world class standards of “Deep Excellence”

Book Authors

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John Quirke

John Quirke

John Quirke originally graduated from the National University of Ireland Maynooth with an honour’s degree in Chemistry and Biology. John subsequently completed a master’s degree in chemical oceanography with University College Galway. A specialisation in metal chemistry led John to an early career as a chemical process engineer with Fujitsu Isotec, where he spent time in Japan studying Japanese manufacturing and engineering techniques.

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Simon Grogan

Simon Grogan

Simon Grogan has dyspraxia, which means whilst being particularly bad at any sport that requires co-ordination, he is clumsy, falls over, gets lost a lot, can be frustrated easily and worst of all finds reading and writing very difficult. Growing up in the nineteen seventies Simon’s dyspraxia was never diagnosed – he was treated as a kid who was just a bit thick. Out of sheer bloody mindedness Simon learnt to cope with his dyspraxia and managed to bundle his way through his education.

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Juliette Packham

Juliette Packham

Juliette Packham graduated from Coventry University with an honours degree in Industrial Product Design. After a short time as a Design Engineer, Juliette was appointed to a major Business Lean Transformation Project. Here she grew her Lean thinking skills in Operations, Logistics and Warehousing where she quickly realised problems within these areas often stemmed from a poor approach to New Product Introduction. Observations in the lack of systemic thinking during this time also helped pique her interest in leadership behaviours and managing change.

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Dr Bryan Cutliff

Dr Bryan Cutliff

Before joining S A Partners, Bryan served as a Chief Executive Officer in small to medium-sized businesses, specifically within the healthcare industry. During this time, he promoted the importance of creating value for customers, employees, and stakeholders by focusing business resources and efforts on enhancing organizational engagement.

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