Best practices
“Strive for perfection but don’t wait for it.”
(Perhaps this post belongs on my other blog, but it’s here now, and so it goes.)
- Talking about Michael Gerber’s challenges in his E-Myth in my local networking group. Create the perfect system.
- Thinking about Valeria Maltoni’s weekly Tweetchat on Kaizen. Perfectibility as work/lifestyle.
- Loving the work I do, helping people express their brands online. And thinking how vast the field is.
I want to reject Gerber’s ideas, because they’re contrary to an artisan approach. But I know that the truth is, though he leans to the right, Gerber’s got a point. Whether you expect to incorporate your business or remain a tradesperson, your search for perfectibility is paramount. Your progress in perfectibility is the yardstick of success.
When you give things an Oriental slant, seeing work as practice in the slow patience of a belief system, the ugly edge of mechanism is softened. It’s not robotic, it’s devotional.
But really it’s the mere fact of the ‘net that forces us to work smarter, right? The vastness of it.
The reality that we have this tool for discovery of self and other that lets us envision a perfection heretofore unimaginable.
