Adam Outland

Dave says when you get caught up in perfection, you get hung up on the little details that don't matter.

Or you spin your wheels and never advance at all.

If you're growing and you're advancing, it's perfect enough.

And finally, you've got to live in the gray, both personally and professionally.

As Dave puts it, no good answer is black or white.

All the answers are in the middle, in the gray.

It's harder to decipher because you have to hear things you don't necessarily agree with.

But if you're willing to listen to both sides and collaborate, you'll get a lot more done.

Push too hard on one side, you'll alienate employees and customers and end up in a place where you've burned your culture, the business isn't flourishing, and you're left wondering what happened.

And that's not great for a long-term strategy.

For these insights and many more, check out the full interview across Action Catalyst episodes 497 and 498 with Dave Mortensen.

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But when you actually look at that risk, it actually may be a lot lower to try to do something different.

It's all about how you perceive change and what you have to look at to do that.

So the analogy I'd end with is this, like it's like driving a car.

over the last handful of years where one of the wheels is a little bit out of alignment.

Have any of you guys had like an old car that had an alignment problem before?