Thomas Curran: The Perfection Trap

FranklinCovey On Leadership with Scott Miller

FranklinCovey

Business, Management

4.9 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Learn some new ways to steer clear of the perfection trap with practical tips and insights from author Thomas Curran. The London School of Economics professor shares what he’s learned from his journey with perfectionism and discusses the impact it can have on the workplace and society as a whole. He offers advice on how leaders can balance high standards with support and create a healthy work environment. Manage Your Energy to Do Your Job Well: 5 Tips for Constant Self-Renewal—To identify areas where you're putting yourself at risk of burnout, answer the questions in our guide, then choose one good self-care habit you can start practicing this week.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's on Leadership with Scott Miller
0:14.0	podcast that's me I'm your host each week where on Tuesdays and Fridays we release
0:19.8	episodes both on audio and video featuring and highlighting some of the world's key
0:25.5	thought leaders. Oftentimes they are best-selling authors, CEOs, business titans,
0:31.3	solopreneurs, entrepreneurs.
0:33.5	Sometimes they are academics, researchers, practitioners.
0:37.4	And in many cases, they are also
0:38.8	are people that have perhaps survived an unspeakable trauma
0:41.8	or accident or incident and have lived not just to tell but to thrive
0:46.5	about their recovery and to teach all of us how to be more effective, how to be better
0:50.6	listeners, better leaders, better collaborators, better humans.
0:55.1	Our company, Franklin Covey, of course, the world's most trusted leadership development firm
0:59.2	was co-founded by Stephen R. Covey, the author of the seminal book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective
1:05.6	People.
1:06.6	And our mission is to really inspire and ignite greatness and people and organizations everywhere.
1:12.2	Today is a topic that I have some intimate experience with.
1:15.6	We're going to talk about perfection.
1:17.8	Today is Thomas Curran.
1:19.3	He is the author of the book The Perfection Trap, Embracing the Power of Good Enough.
1:26.8	Additionally, he is a professor of psychology at the London School of Economics, not too
1:31.4	shabby. Thomas, Kiran, welcome to On Leadership.
1:36.2	Hi, Scott, it's great to be here.
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