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This blog is devoted to the exploration of Gerald Sindell's Endleofon Innovation Process. Gerald is the founder of Thought Leaders International, offers innovation services at Sindell Innovation, and manages social media for clients at Agency For Social Media and is author of: The Genius Machine: The Eleven Steps that Turn Raw Ideas Into Brilliance (New World Library, May, 2009).

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12 September 2009 - 13:20Why Start With The Perfect?

You’re third in line for takeoff, finally ready to depart La Guardia and get to your lunch meeting in Chicago. The pilot comes on the P.A. for a last-minute cheery message: “Thanks for your patience. We hope to make it up one we’re in the air and get you to O’Hare on time. Or at least someplace not too far from there. We’re thinking maybe Gary or Indianapolis. As the President says, we shouldn’t make the perfect the enemy of the essential. So wish us luck.”

What if that were acceptable? What if we never got where we were hoping to go, and it was okay?

What are the implications when President Obama tells us that part of his philosophy is, “We shouldn’t make the perfect the enemy of the essential?” Sounds reasonable, in a way. Don’t want to be a perfectionist about everything. Wouldn’t be realistic. Never get anything done. Got to compromise, make a deal. Make progress of some kind.

I’m not so sure about throwing the perfect overboard. Read more…

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