Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

Done beats perfect every single time #productivity #mindset

13 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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A speaker argues that waiting for a perfect plan wastes time. Teams that moved forward with plans only 60-70% complete, executing with conviction and intensity, achieved great success. Perfection hinders progress; decisive action on good-enough plans is what moves you forward.

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You can't wait for the perfect plan. It's not that you, you shouldn't try to plan, it's that you just know that there's no such thing as a perfect plan. And I think that's what helped me a lot with the things that I've seen, is that I've seen people go out with a plan that was just about probably somewhere between 60 and 70% of an actual plan, but it was executed in such a way that it was extremely successful. Violently executed. They truly believed in it and got everybody on board and operating in the same direction, and then somehow they achieved success. Perfection is obviously— this is one of the things, another cliché for you, I'm sorry, I have to say it, but perfection is oftentimes the enemy of progress, and that's one of the reasons that we can't move beyond where we are.