Why are you searching for perfection?
It amazes me that managers and leaders expect themselves to be perfect - but why? All the great leaders of our time and in history, have been known to have flaws.
Seeking perfection is a great motivation - if you understand that you will make mistakes, that it is impossible to be loved by all.
The trouble with demanding perfection is that you
- Don't take enough risk - you play safe.
- You don't stretch yourself, your team enough
- You make yourself less human! After all humans have flaws :)
- You put yourself under too much stress, unhealthy stress that lessons your performance.
We need the desire to improve, to seek perfection - at the same time we need to understand that it is in our own imperfections that we come across more human.
Maybe it is by recognising our imperfections that we can move towards perfection!
