Failure & get up again: Make mistakes instead of perfection

Of course everyone is insecure at times, even top managers. The Problem however, that is the Anxiety mistakes in everyday working life are taboo: perfection is required, mistakes are seen as embarrassing. With unexpected consequences.

A misstep costs us our lives

In fact, we firmly believe that every little misstep gives us credit and respect Status can cost.

Missing colleagues just seem to wait for our un-perfect being to put our failures to the pillory.

The warning is already waiting?

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The Executive may immediately beckon with a warning if perfection is lacking. And with the next wave of layoffs, you could also be on the hit list.

The current economic situation, better known as the economic crisis, further intensifies these fears.

Opportunities

Exactly because of this, however, the chance is wasted constructive deal with mistakes and from it for the Future to learn.

Better not use a few Employees all hierarchical levels spend valuable working time denying, covering up, glossing over mistakes made or even foisting them on others.

The goal becomes secondary

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That actually ObjectiveAchieving something productive together becomes secondary, sometimes even takes a back seat.

Much more is in some Companys a real competitive culture has matured, in which the only thing that matters is to trump your dear colleagues in terms of flawlessness: And it goes so far that the whole Industries fear internal audit more than the competition.

In this way, perfectionism in thinking becomes part of the corporate culture and avoiding mistakes – albeit unconsciously – a corporate goal. Because of the sheer perfection, there is hardly any room for Innovation and entrepreneurial activity.

Risk avoidance instead of success

Because instead of their entire Energy to set one Success to achieve and for that too risks and to accept setbacks, such failure avoiders behave accordingly cautiously and defensively.

They may even manage not to do anything wrong, but at a high price: those who follow the avoidance strategy also avoid making those important decisions that are important for personal progress, but also for the whole Economy are that important.

Fear of innovation = fear of starting a business

The GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP MONITOR annually evaluates the start-up conditions in 42 countries and gives the Germans a real poverty report: the size of the fear of risking something new, especially in Germany,

We are currently in third place in terms of the general attitude towards self-employment in society. Only in countries such as Urquay, Slovenia or Hungary is there even greater skepticism about becoming self-employed. 3% of the Germans surveyed in Age between the ages of 18 and 64 would give up the step into self-employment for fear that it could go wrong. A real dilemma for Germany as a business location.

A question of motivation

However, not only for companies, but also for the individual, the desire for perfection can become a boomerang. Because in the long run, you are only being overwhelmed by perfectionism and too high demands! As the?

In the end you lose everyone Motivation. Paradoxically, therefore, a particularly high level of ambition can lead to a lot less being achieved in the end. As the?

People simply work better when they are motivated and enjoy what they are doing. Because if you just want to do your job well, you usually think forward-looking, positively and optimistic. He assumes that he is the upcoming Tasks can cope well is motivated - and therefore particularly productive.

Flow instead of perfectionism

In this context, the psychologist Mihály Csikszentmihályi speaks of flow, which Lust the drive for curiosity and total immersion in a task that drives people to move forward and solve problems with enthusiasm. The reason for this is the biochemical processes in our body: the euphoria we feel when we have completed a stressful job satisfactorily is due to the hormones norepinephrine and serotonin, among other things.

These call positive Feelings emerge as a reward for previous effort act. If this so-called eustress occurs regularly and in doses, it stimulates the immune system and has a motivating effect. Recent results of brain research even show that Stress promotes faster networking of brain cells. And because skills grow the more you do the job, new challenges will need to be faced if the flow experience is to continue. New ones emerge from these ideasthat move people forward.

Healthy challenge instead of overburden

However, this works only if you work purposefully and the challenge fits your own abilities. If the requirements are too low, boredom sets in, they are too high, frustration and overstrain. In both cases, motivation suffers.

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