Saturday, March 15, 2025

Perfection Requires Time--And Time Kills All Deals! Stop Trying to Be Perfect!

Posted By: George Deeb - 3/15/2025

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 Winston Churchill is famously known for saying, "Perfection is the enemy of progress." And that quote most relevantly applies in business, perhaps more than any other sector. You may say, why is perfection a problem? Isn't perfection a noble goal when doing your work?  The answer is that perfection takes time, and time in the business world can often be a deal killer. If you can produce A- work in one week and A+ work in one month, that incremental benefit of the "perfect" work product, is most certainly lost in the form of the three weeks of lost time. When an A- is good enough to get the job done, take the win and move on. Here is how to better keep your business running at "light speed."

Read the rest of this post in Entrepreneur, which I guest authored this week.

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