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…important discoveries [will be made] by being willing to be imperfect, especially at the initial stages of developing their ideas.
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036 |
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…there is little evidence that people who achieve exceptional performance ever get there through any means other than carefully guided practice – perfect practice.
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121 |
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In most jobs, work is never done, which means there’s never a perfect time to go on vacation or head home for the day.
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031 |
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A job won’t always align perfectly with what we love to do, but there are ways to make our least favorite tasks bearable if we remind ourselves of the people our work affects.
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057 |
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It’s hard to beat a well-executing organization, even it the strategy isn’t perfect.
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078 |
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Micromanagers are about control; Nitpickers are about perfection, standards, and preferences.
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162 |
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To hell with your competitors; compete against perfection by identifying all activities that are muda and eliminating them.
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049 |
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…in order to form a view… of what perfection would be, value stream managers need to apply the four lean principles of value specification, value stream identification, flow, and pull.
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094 |
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Paradoxically, no picture of perfection can be perfect.
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094 |
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Perfection is like infinity. Trying to envision it (and to get there) is actually impossible, but the effort to do so provides inspiration and direction essential to making process along the path.
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094 |
