PERFORMANCE AND PERFECTION

“I like to do things well,” I hear repeated several times. At every level and within corporate cultures that are also very different from each other, I observe the difficulty of balancing the external request for efficiency with the “internal” request to do well, the one that each one does to himself.

When the scale plate weighs from the outside, usually the effect is an emptied vase: the individual executes and tries operationally to respond, without dealing with what he personally expects from himself and postponing his personal growth to another moment.

Who, on the other hand, weighs the internal request more, often puts himself into continuous performance, even when it would not be necessary. The effect of this imbalance is a wait for perfection, which will never come.

Between forgetting about yourself and demanding perfection, it would be necessary to follow a different path: make yourself aware of one’s imperfections, to accept them and from there to start, not to develop a perfect performance, but a performance that is authentically mirror of the individual.

Enrica Birardi – HR Consultant Fluxus hr