{"id":44,"date":"2006-05-20T21:12:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T02:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=44"},"modified":"2006-05-20T21:12:50","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T02:12:50","slug":"perfectionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/perfectionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfectionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two links that relate directly to each other.  First, a Forbes.com article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/careers\/2005\/11\/16\/workaholic-career-management-cx_sr_1117bizbasics.html\" target=\"_blank\">Addicted to Work<\/a>.  Interesting point:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Perfectionism overrides efficiency,&#8221; Robinson says. &#8220;A workaholic will spend unnecessary time on a project, often going over it again and again before passing it on.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article gets fairly intense about the outcroppings of a workaholic.  One particular Selling Style is particularly susceptible to becoming a workaholic &#8211; it is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectmetrix.com\/Process_Selling_Style\/Compliance.html\" target=\"_blank\">High C<\/a>.  The very strengths in their style also make them susceptible to extremism in their work role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two links that relate directly to each other. First, a Forbes.com article titled Addicted to Work. Interesting point: &#8220;Perfectionism overrides efficiency,&#8221; Robinson says. &#8220;A workaholic will spend unnecessary time on a project, often going over it again and again before passing it on.&#8221; The article gets fairly intense about the outcroppings of a workaholic. One particular Selling Style is particularly susceptible to becoming a workaholic &#8211; it is the High C. The very strengths in their style also make them susceptible to extremism in their work role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/in-support-of-assessments\/","url_meta":{"origin":44,"position":0},"title":"In Support of Assessments","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 18, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I read Perfect Score = Perfect Job? a few days ago on Forbes.com and am catching up to comment on it now. 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