From the course: Overcoming Obstacles and Building Team Resilience

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Progress, not perfection

Progress, not perfection

From the course: Overcoming Obstacles and Building Team Resilience

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Progress, not perfection

- In your quest to build truly resilient teams, you should never let the pursuit of perfection hinder progress. Things are never going to be exactly the way we want 'em, right? But we inspire the people around us to go forward and do the very best we can with what we've got, on that day and in that moment, and that's exactly what my teammates and I had to do in the Raid Gauloises World Championships in Tibet and Nepal. So for seven days we'd been climbing in the Himalayan peaks up and over the Friendship Highway, day seven of this race it appeared as though all we had to do was just run into this transitionary, jump on our mountain bikes ride 60 miles through Nepal, to the finish line and yay. We're going to win the Raid for the second year in a row. Not so fast. We go running into the transition area and our crew isn't there. Our bikes aren't there. There's nothing there. So we sat for about five minutes. Then we…

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