Responsibility vs Excellence - What's the difference?
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The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable.
A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable.
(military) The obligation to carry forward an assigned task to a successful conclusion. With responsibility goes authority to direct and take the necessary action to ensure success. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).
(military) The obligation for the proper custody, care, and safekeeping of property or funds entrusted to the possession or supervision of an individual. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms).
The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
Something in which one excels.
An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.
As nouns the difference between responsibility and excellence
is that responsibility is the state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable while excellence is the quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.As a proper noun Excellence is
a title of honor or respect; more common in the form Excellency.responsibility
English
Noun
(responsibilities)- Responsibility is a heavy burden.
- Why didn't you clean the house? That was your responsibility !
- The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world -
Synonyms
* responsiblenessSee also
* accountabilityReferences
* * * Feltus, C.; Petit, M. (2009). "Building a Responsibility Model Including Accountability, Capability and Commitment", Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security'', Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ), Fukuoka, 2009.''Building a Responsibility Model Including Accountability, Capability and Commitment
