Prosperous Project Management: If all else fails, then lower your standards

Prosperous Project Management

Tips, techniques and pragmatic strategies for excellent Project Managers, Toastmasters and high personal achievers. Wayne Botha is a rare Project Manager, with passion for achieving results through Project Management, while improving inter-personal relationships, and developing Project Managers in the process. Wayne is a faculty member at Toastmsters Leadership Institute and Axia college of University of Phoenix.

Friday, November 28, 2008

If all else fails, then lower your standards

Sometimes we are just trying to reach perfection out of habit. Sometimes the situation at hand does not require perfection. In fact, sometimes adequacy is adequate and perfection is a waste of good money and your time.

If you are struggling to reach perfection or accomplish a task to your satisfaction, then consider lowering your standards. Will it really matter if every nail in the deck is not straight? Does anyone care if you have a typo in your blog posting? Does it really matter if you missed one Toastmasters meeting this month?

The final 20% of any project is likely to be dysfunctional, so don’t invest precious moments of your life in seeking perfection. If all else fails when you are striving for an elusive objective, then get real, and lower your standards.

0 Comments:

Links to this post:

<$BlogBacklinkTitle$>: <$BlogBacklinkSnippet$>
<$I18NPostedByBacklinkAuthor$> @ <$BlogBacklinkDateTime$>

Create a Link

<< Home

About Me

Name: Wayne Botha

Location: South Windsor, Connecticut, United States

Wayne Botha is one of those rare people who can say he is a project manager, author and speaker and mean it. He is a past Area Governor for Toastmasters International and an enthusiastic Toastmaster. Wayne is a faculty member of Toastmasters Leadership Institute and has trained audiences in South Africa, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and the USA. With an MBA in eCommerce, and a PMP certification, Wayne is sought out to speak at Toastmasters and Project Management conferences. Wayne's colleagues and friends often tease him about his South African accent.