I’m on a diet. I mention this partially because someone told me not to and I am a malcontent. More importantly than that, I am using it to illustrate a point. I mentioned that I was on a diet and that it was working in a conversation. The person I was speaking to mentioned she had gained weight and I said I was on a diet as a way to sympathize. I expected that it would end there. Instead the person went on to tell me I shouldn’t say I am on a diet and to started to tell me all sorts of things I should be doing instead. She chose to focus on the word diet instead of the fact that what I was doing is working.
There are always people who want to change the way you do business. I hear it most often in tech circles where a web developer will tell someone they should redo their site using Joomla or some other back end. Is your site bringing in clients? Does is make you look good? Is it easy for you to manage? If you said yes to these questions, then it doesn’t;t matter that some developer likes one piece of software over another.
Whenever you improve a process, there is a cost. The effort of making changes impacts productivity. There can also be costs in buying new software or equipment. At some point the marginal improvement you may get is not worth the cost. If you can make a change that gives big results, make the change. If you are only going to get a marginal improvement, you need to ask if the cost is worth it.
Even in continuous improvement there comes a point where if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
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