We’re all taught from a young age to just “do our best.” As long as we give it everything we have that’s all we can do. I’d like to call bull****.
Doing your best and still failing implies that there are opportunities for improvement. Doing your best also implies that you should do it yourself. Bringing someone else in or grabbing a team is somehow against the rules.
Results matter. At the end of the day, results may be all that matter if Wall Street is our measuring stick. Failure while trying your best is still failure. Grab your team, get your go-to problem solvers lined up. Do anything for the answer – don’t just “do your best.”