The Printer Has the Book

This book has taken a while to get right. I would rewrite a chapter one day, thinking it was perfect. Then, the next day I would read it again and wonder if someone else had rewritten it during the night.  But, it's "good enough" now!

By mid-February we should have the book in-hand. Go to the website to order an autographed copy in advance.

It's 26 Chapters and 80,000 words. Here's another excerpt:

"Time and money wasted, is time and money gone forever. And a waste of time and money means some other positive thing that could have happened, didn’t. 

The “Good Enough” rule is especially applicable to Working Procedures. A 100 percent perfect document that took forever to create carries an imbedded imperfection: The extra time spent creating the masterpiece is lost forever, therefore the finished product carries an imbedded taint and — catch 22 — you can never call it “perfect.”

So, make your procedures detailed but don’t make them too detailed. They should be good enough so the desired results are consistently produced, and so someone “off the street” can execute them, but no more. See it this way: In putting your procedures together quickly, you are reaching a kind of perfection — the perfection of a useful product created without waste.

Throughout this book I have asserted that you must “tweak your procedures to perfection.” Now you better understand why my definition of perfection is 98 percent, not 100 percent. "