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[[File:Nicolas de Largillière, François-Marie Arouet dit Voltaire adjusted.png|400px|thumb|center|Parfait. The enemy, apparently.]]}}[[It’ll do]]. “Perfection is the enemy of good enough.”  
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:  —  Voltaire}}[[It’ll do]]. “Perfection is the enemy of good enough.”  


And do we have before us one of those [[paradox]]es of management? For at the same time we say, “be realistic about your aspiration to perfection”, we also say, “it is all about quality”. So what’s with the [[quality|quality versus perfection]] trade-off?
And do we have before us one of those [[paradox]]es of management? For at the same time we say, “be realistic about your aspiration to perfection”, we also say, “it is all about quality”. So what’s with the [[quality|quality versus perfection]] trade-off?