Bob Sutton has a great post on the tension between getting it done and getting it done right. He describes this as the tension between the need for completion and the need for perfection.
The discussion about perfection and completion reminded me of a job that I had as an editor in which I was consistently sent back to the drawing board to rework whatever idea we developed. I never completed a project because of a boss who was a perfectionist. But this was almost the perfect antidote to life in traditional publishing in which project after project had to be completed on a rigorous schedule without regards to quality.
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:16 am
In this town, having a Type A personality might as well be listed as part of a skill set. I myself am a perfectionist, though I fight against that impulse all the time.