Walking Your Talk | Culture Change & Leadership

4: Simplicity series - Why being fit for purpose is perfect

May 28, 2019

Discover how to reduce complexity and perfectionism in organizational leadership by embracing the 'Fit for Purpose' mindset. Learn the importance of simplicity, efficiency, and challenging beliefs to create a more fulfilling life. Explore practical exercises and personal stories from working with Google.

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Embrace 'fit for purpose' mindset to prioritize effectively and reduce complexity in organizations.

Shift belief from 'never good enough' to 'I am enough' for liberating leadership and personal growth.

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The Power of Fit for Purpose

Perfectionism leads to difficulty in prioritizing and focusing, resulting in an excessive workload. The CEO of one organization had a strong need for detail and generated a significant amount of work for the whole organization. In another organization, perfectionism was a pervasive trait among leaders, making it challenging to focus, prioritize, and simplify. The concept of 'fit for purpose' offers an alternative to perfectionism. It involves determining what is necessary and sufficient for a particular purpose, rather than striving for absolute perfection. This approach allows for flexibility, as some tasks require high perfection while others may need less.

Purposeful Perfectionism

01:17

Introduction

2min

Exploring Perfectionism within Organizations and the Concept of 'Fit for Purpose'

4min

Exploring the idea of fit for purpose and being enough

4min

Exploring and Reframing Beliefs for Creating Simplicity

2min

How to reduce your own perfectionism and create a simpler, agile organisation. Do you struggle to reduce complexity? Are you working for an organisation that is driving to achieve this? In this second episode in Walking your Talk’s series on simplicity, Carolyn will show you how to reduce your own perfectionistic tendencies, and by doing so reduce complexity for yourself and those around you. Learn what ‘fit for purpose’ means in any situation, and how it frees you to distinguish between what really needs to be perfect, and where good enough really is...good enough. . This episode gives you a path to avoid this, and instead become a leader who “walks your simplicity talk”.

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Website: www.carolyntaylorculture.com
Podcast: www.carolyntaylorculture.com/podcast
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