Let us today delve into how to correct harmful perfectionistic tendencies and become more productive as a follow-up to the March 18, 2021 Business Talk article in the Business Daily titled “Perfect is the enemy of the good; change tack” that addressed the dangers of perfectionism on work teams.
World-renowned organisational psychologist Adam Grant highlights that perfectionists spend inordinate amounts of time self-critiquing and badgering themselves over details that are really of no consequence or minimal importance. Perfectionists tend to think that reality is worse than what it really is.
