Success and profits come from devoting resources to activities that create value for which customers are willing to pay and minimizing resources devoted to everything else. Everyone must learn to stop and create clarity on the fly! Philosophers may still be debating that one, but here is a far easier one: If your finishing touches are discernible to no one but you, do they create value? Redoing - because you didn’t create the clarity of purpose and process that would have allowed doing it right the first time. Dismantle and replace them by insisting that all activities create value for which customers are willing to pay.

Source: Forbes August 27, 2017 20:26 UTC