Perfection is the enemy of progress
We live in deeply uncertain times, so it is unsurprising and understandable that I hear some people putting off any kind of strategising, planning or acting for themselves personally or for their business.
However, rather than waiting until you are sure of what will happen (with vaccines, with covid, with the economy), what if instead the very act of strategising and planning would be supportive to you and those you lead? The idea of looking to the future may have you and them feel more in control through that sense of having agency. So, even if you stop at either the strategising or planning stage and don’t actually take action, that can be positive.
What if, though, after creating a strategy then a plan, you decide to act upon it. Will you get it 100% right?. No. Let’s be honest, we rarely do get it 100% right. Will you, then, get it even as close to 100% right as you did before the pandemic? Probably not, we live in uncertain times, after all.
However, will you, through strategising, then planning, then acting, make tangible and valuable progress in moving yourself and your business forwards? Yes you will, and making progress is a step you can take to move forwards in these times.
In more normal times I’d say “perfection is the enemy of progress” and encourage people to act, to learn, to iterate, to move forwards. In times such as we live in now, it is perhaps even more important to keep creating strategies, then making plans from those strategies, then acting upon them.
Make Progress