Delightful Work

My Dad subscribed to the brute force method of fine carpentry. He believed everything could be fixed with a big screwdriver and a hammer. If a door frame wasn’t quite plumb, just loosen it with the screwdriver and give it a couple of whacks.
Business can be like that. If something isn’t quite right we can often force it into place with a few good whacks of hard work and effort. But these quick fixes in business and carpentry often come back to haunt us because we were addressing only symptoms.

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