Ingredient 86.Get Bored Easily
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Be the first to recognize it isn’t good enough.

“Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.” —Jean Baudrillard, sociologist and philosopher

The Problem

Companies go bust when they rest on their laurels and think they can drag out the existence of a substandard product.

The Solution

Raise the quality bar within your team and commit to continually raising it.

  • Have thin skin. Be allergic to poor design execution. Refer back to your missions, objectives, and design principles.[221] Link quality to measurable metrics to track each successive improvement. Keep improving what isn’t good enough. ...

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