The exemplary curve
Regulation sets a floor. The exemplary climbs above it, largely unregulated.
What it is
Standards and regulation set a floor: the dashed “minimum levels” line. The most exemplary work climbs well above that floor, into a region almost nothing requires of you. No standard obliges you to be exemplary.
I draw the curve rising over time to make the point that exemplarity is a direction of travel, not a threshold you clear once. I use it alongside the benchmarking work to keep compliance (meeting the minimum) and exemplarity (the unregulated space above the floor) as two different things, not two amounts of the same thing.
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