Who Needs Perfection Anyway?

Excellence is better than perfection because perfection is static while excellence is evolving. Mistakes are required to reach higher and higher levels of excellence. Excellence stretches and has contingencies and flexibility to take advantage of less than perfect situations and transform circumstances to make the outcome better than anyone could have imagined.
Perfection is fragile, while [...]

Twenty Dollars

A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked. “Who would like this $20 bill?”
Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you – but first, let me do this.”
He proceeded to crumple the 20 [...]