{"id":2945,"date":"2013-07-07T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T14:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/07\/good-enough\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T10:17:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T14:17:44","slug":"good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/07\/good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our western culture places a premium on achieving ever greater measures of success which, paradoxically, can intimidate us from taking the first, crucial steps towards a goal — fear of failure can often prevent forward progress.  <\/p>\n

I came across an interesting interview<\/a> in the NY TIMES with Jan Filochowski, chief executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, one of the world\u2019s top children\u2019s hospitals, where he talks about the importance of constructively dealing with failure, as opposed to trying to avoid it:<\/p>\n

Q. We have to make mistakes to become better managers?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A. I\u2019m a huge believer in the 80\/20 rule. As long as you get more things right than you get wrong, that\u2019s O.K. And if you wait until you get everything right, you\u2019ll never do anything. You\u2019ll be perfect, but indecisive, and you will fail big-time. That\u2019s one of the things I learned. It\u2019s about achieving not just the O.K. but the good enough. If you focus on the good enough, you get better and better. If you wait to get from the good to the great, I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll ever get to the good.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our western culture places a premium on achieving ever greater measures of success which, paradoxically, can intimidate us from taking the first, crucial steps towards a goal — fear of failure can often prevent forward progress.  I came across an interesting interview in the NY TIMES with Jan Filochowski, chief executive of Great Ormond Street […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}