The Perfectionist: What Your Team Experiences
- Jun 17
- 1 min read
The hardest thing I tell perfectionists:
Your team has stopped trying. Not because they’re not capable. Because their best work gets rewritten every time.
Every revision you make that they didn’t ask for sends the same message: your judgment isn’t good enough.
The perfectionist thinks they’re elevating the work. The team experiences something different — they experience a leader who doesn’t trust them.
The fix isn’t lowering your standards. It’s asking a harder question: what are you actually protecting when you won’t let something go?
The work — or yourself?
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