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Progression vs Perfection
Dr. Helen Holton, a leadership strategist, coach, author, and former Baltimore City Councilwoman, discusses how perfectionism creates "perfection-driven misalignment," the gap between excellence and perfection that pressures leaders, teams, culture, and results. Holton shares her leadership journey, including self-doubt, overworking, feeling unseen, and the need to find one's voice amid conscious and unconscious bias, noting large numbers of women displaced from roles. She frames perfectionism as over-performance, procrastination, fear of mistakes, and difficulty delegating, and urges leaders…
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