Practice Management

Want perfect? I got something perfect for you right here.

By Dan Hull

The downside of the dweeb breed. Perfectionism. A great place to "be from". A wonderful instinct, if controlled. It's also a curse--of eldest children, professionals, knowledge workers, most lawyers, all spouses, your Mom, and the geek classes, or Techwazee. The horror, the horror. Too much, and you need rehab. Worse, your senior partner will start questioning your judgment. Clients 99% of the time are not paying you to be perfect. They don't want it. See "Rule 10: Be Accurate, Thorough and Timely--But Not Perfect" in WAC?'s annoying-but-accurate 12 Rules. Be excellent, not perfect. Big difference.

The dweebs, the dweebs...

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Full post as published by What About Clients? on February 27, 2009 (boomark / email).