7. There Has To Be A Better Way

Partly a corollary to his previous commandment, this one is centered around the fact that no matter how well we do something, there is always a better way to do it! “Excellence is not a destination but a journey,” quips Premji, adding that sometimes when we reach a plateau in our climb for perfection, we need to look sideways. After all, innovation oftentimes is inspired from other disciplines. It is probably not a coincidence that Einstein’s interest in music was as much as his interest in Physics and Bertrand Russell was as much a mathematician as a philosopher.