I'm working on an employee manual and I came across this one: "Our team philosophy is to become the best of which we are capable."
Is this a correct sentence? The point it's trying to get across is clearly that there are all these things of which one is capable and we would like to become only the best of them, so should it be, "to become the best of that which we are capable?"
Best Answer
Simpler:
Our team philosophy is to become the best we can.
(Or, "... we can be.")
Perhaps even simpler:
Our team philosophy is to become the best.
Or more honest:
Our team philosophy is to become the best we can be, knowing that occasionally we'll screw up big time, but hoping that we'll learn from those mistakes and not repeat them, but also knowing that we probably will.
I'd work for a company that was that honest (and had that sense of humour).