Comments on: Perfect as the enemy of the good, parenthood and business http://www.fiftybyfifty.com/lifeoffarhan/2009/08/19/perfect-as-the-enemy-of-the-good-parenthood-and-business/ chapter four - my 30s Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Farhan Lalji http://www.fiftybyfifty.com/lifeoffarhan/2009/08/19/perfect-as-the-enemy-of-the-good-parenthood-and-business/comment-page-1/#comment-482 Farhan Lalji Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:23:02 +0000 http://www.fiftybyfifty.com/lifeoffarhan/?p=242#comment-482 Hey Raam, you're right, not all problems fit the action for strategy, but it's about knowing when either strategy would work and inaction leads to paralysis, which happens way too often in business. Parents not knowing whether classical or jazz would be better for the baby spends all her time researching rather then just playing some nice music. Or a company waiting to get the product to have every feature under the sun which complicates the offering when it gets released 3 months after the competition which scooped up market share. Sure there are exceptions, especially when action can wait for research, but you need to be conscientiously inactive in those moments. Hey Raam, you’re right, not all problems fit the action for strategy, but it’s about knowing when either strategy would work and inaction leads to paralysis, which happens way too often in business. Parents not knowing whether classical or jazz would be better for the baby spends all her time researching rather then just playing some nice music. Or a company waiting to get the product to have every feature under the sun which complicates the offering when it gets released 3 months after the competition which scooped up market share. Sure there are exceptions, especially when action can wait for research, but you need to be conscientiously inactive in those moments.

]]> By: Raam http://www.fiftybyfifty.com/lifeoffarhan/2009/08/19/perfect-as-the-enemy-of-the-good-parenthood-and-business/comment-page-1/#comment-481 Raam Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:08:09 +0000 http://www.fiftybyfifty.com/lifeoffarhan/?p=242#comment-481 Hmm. Yes, sort of. This applies for all sorts of new problems - any new challenge that is structurally different to others. eg a hockey game, or in the case of a new baby, how to persuade them to cry less. However, not sure that I agree for the issues that fundamentally the same for all babies / businesses - eg: 1) how to make the decisions on what sort of website hosting is needed 2) how to make sure that they don't get mumps / measles (answers are go and find an expert and go and get the injections) Yes to making stuff up on the fly when you've already set up your vision - but not when these are identical problems that have been solved previously. Then you'd be foolish to re-invent the wheel. Hmm. Yes, sort of.

This applies for all sorts of new problems – any new challenge that is structurally different to others. eg a hockey game, or in the case of a new baby, how to persuade them to cry less.

However, not sure that I agree for the issues that fundamentally the same for all babies / businesses – eg:
1) how to make the decisions on what sort of website hosting is needed
2) how to make sure that they don’t get mumps / measles

(answers are go and find an expert and go and get the injections)

Yes to making stuff up on the fly when you’ve already set up your vision – but not when these are identical problems that have been solved previously. Then you’d be foolish to re-invent the wheel.

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