In corporate, I spent months making multi-million pound deals perfect, and it was the right call. In a small business, perfect is the thing holding you back.
In this episode I share why “start now, get perfect later” is one of my favourite quotes, and three lessons for small business owners who keep polishing instead of launching:
Corporate wins with precision. You win with speed.
Indecision is a decision, and it’s the worst one. How to decide at 70%, time-box your decisions and set a launch date, not a finish date.
Start, learn, get 1% better. What Facebook’s “move fast and break things” got wrong, Sir Dave Brailsford’s marginal gains at British Cycling, and what 600+ episodes of Business Growth Talks taught me.
Your challenge: pick the one thing you’ve been polishing and put it out this week. Tell me in the comments what you’re starting.
Chapters
0:00 Why perfectionism is killing your business
0:27 Corporate vs small business: one pitch vs a hundred
3:29 Indecision: the real reason you haven’t started
5:45 Three habits to decide faster
7:02 Move fast, but don’t break things
8:10 Marginal gains: the British Cycling lesson
9:30 From episode 1 to 600+
10:50 Your challenge this week
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