Federica Marchionni argues that chasing perfection breeds fear of failure, while aiming for excellence encourages experimentation and quick fixes. Leaders who let people fail and iterate build stronger organizations than those demanding flawless execution.
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There are leaders that choose perfection as they are setting the bar for the organization. And when you do that, what you can risk to create is a culture of fears. The fears to fail. While what I actually like more is the possibility to fail and the experimentation. So while you can experiment, you can of course, you have to be able and to accept failure. The most important thing is how fast you can react and how quickly you can fix something to make sure that then everything going well. But of course, nobody wants to fail. We don't conceive things in that way. What we want to do is to raise the bar and making sure that we do everything possible to get to strive for perfection, but to reach excellence. Excellence is good enough.